THE HONGKONG.
WEDNES
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned has received Instructions to sell by Public Auction on
THURSDAY, the th
"September 1919, commencing at Il zm. At E. Godown (Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Ca Ltd., Kowloon)
88 Bars Flat Iron
22 Bundles Round Iron
2 Bars Round Iron
4 Iron Plates
9 Pieces Rails
At L. Godown (Hongkong
& Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Co. Ltd., Kowloon)
135 Bars Round Iron'
... 6 Bundles Round Iron.
Terms: Cash on delivery
Geo. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
TH
THE Unders'gned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
SATURDAY, the 13th Sept. 1919.
commencing at li am. at his Sales Rooms, Duddell" Street
Nails 16" 34 Kegs Wire B.W.G. 18
Terms: Cash on delivery.
Geo. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
"HE Undersigned has received. instructions to sell by Public
Auction on
SATURDAY, the 13th Sept 1919.
commencing & il um.
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell. Street
(For account of the concerned}
3 Cases Iron Bedsteads 14 Cases Florentine Glass
(More or less damaged by sea water)
Also
5 cases Star Chocolate
8 cases Assorted Chocolate
10 cases Dried Figs
3 cases Cambells Soup
3 cases Lime Juice
3 cases Lemon Squash
3 cases Salad Oil
106 tins Groats
Terms: Cash on delivery
Geo. P. LAMMERT Auctioneer.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE:-Pianoforte Up-
right iron grand, good order, British made, $150. Apply Box 231 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."
NOTICE
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
→ FINANCE CO. LTD.
THE Undersigned has receiv icNOTICE is hereby given that
instructions to sell by Publ Auction on
"THURSDAY the lith,
September, 1919, commencing at II am.
an Extraordinary General Meeting of Humphreys Estate & Finance Company Limited will be held at the Hongkong Hotel on the 24th, day of September 1919 at noon for the purpose of considering and if thought fit ap at No. 75 Godown of the Hong-proving the draft new Articles kong & Kowloon Wharf and Go-which will be submitted to the
down Co. Ltd., Kowloon
(for account of the concerned) 200 cases Cassia 19 bales Cunnies
(more or less damaged by sea-water)
stored in the above
godown"
and
518 Rolls Cunny Cloth 2 bales Cunnies
(more or less damaged by sea-water)
stored in No. 17 godown" also - at 11-15 at No. 31 Godown 5 cases Window Class
Terms: Cash on delivery.
Geo. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
WANTED.
i
WANTED: Over Central Office Buildings complete fat for family of three. Reply Box 236 c/o "Hongkong Tele- graph,'
meeting. A copy of such Articles and a copy of the existing Articles may be seen at the Offices of the General Managers in Alexandra Buildings. In auch copy the portions of the proposed New Articles which differ from the Old Articles are indicated by underlining in red ink.
Should the meeting approve of such Articles with or without modification the subjoined extra- ordinary resolution will be pro- posed:
"
"That the New Articles already" approved by this meeting and for the par- pose of identification sub- scribed by the Chairman thereo fbe and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof." Should the resolution be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a special resolution to a second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently con- vened
By Order of the Board
G. RAPP.
Secretary....
NOTICE.
1. On and after Monday 8th September 1919, the issue of per- mits to leave the colony will be discontinued..
"
2. British subjects wishing to leave Hongkong must have in their posess on a passport which has been issued within the last two years.
3. Foreign subjects wishing to leave Hongkong must have in their possession a valid passport issued by their respective diplom- atic or consular officers.
4. Persons arriving in and leaving Hongkong by the same steamer will have their passports examined on board, both on ar- rival and departure.
5. Persons embarking from Hongkong will have the pass- ports examined on departure. To prevent delay in sailings shipping companies should satisfy them-
NOTICE:
QUEEN'S COLLEGE,
HONGKONG. Winter Term and School Tear commence Monday, September 15th.
Candidates for Admission should attend in the College Hall on Saturday, September 13th, at 9. a.m.
Copies of Prospectus may be obtained upon appliction to
The HEAD MASTER,
WISEMAN
LIMITED.
selves that intending passengers Fresh Arrivals
have the necessary passports în their possession.
6. Members of ships crews are allowed to sign on without obtaining a permit from the Captain Superintendent of Police.
All persons with certain excep- tions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of
MACKINTOSH'S.
Toffee de Luxe
IEPTEMBER 10.
AGE AND GOLF,
WHY THE 50-YEAR-OLDS ARE OPTIMISTIC.
R. Endersby Howard writes in the Daily Mail thus:-
Up to what age can a golfer maintain his best form 2 The failure of that long-reigning band of champions, Vardon, Taylor, and Braid, to supply the winner of the Daily Mail tournament at St. Andrews last month has been accepted as evidence that 50 is the limit.
"Far from sharing in the mourn- ing about their own supposed .decline, the individuals concerned are healthily optimistic regarding the future They are waiting to be up and at younger - players again. I was discussing the matter with Vardon the other day. He thought that anybody who remained more or less con- stantly in touch with his clubs orght to continue to hold his position in the game until well over 50.
Registration giving the Parti 50 cents per tin no good for golf.
cular required may be obtained at the G. F. O. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non-compliance
is a fine not exceeding $50.
NOTICE.
NATIONAL BONDS OF
The 3rd, 4th and 5th years of THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
NOTICE is hereby given that repayment of drawn bonds and payment of interest coupons will henceforth be made in Hongkong Notes, at current rates, for the equivalent of the face value of said bonds and coupons.
For the
BANK OF CHINA.
Tsuyee Pei
Oranges
and
Grape Fruit
WISEMAN LTD.
Tel. 407.
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ALLEGORICAL BUT
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IMPORTANCE, OF EXPERINCE
NOTICE
MERCURY GARAGE CO.
MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE
TELEPHONE 977.
PLACID DAYS IN BERLIN,
MUSIC AND SUNSHINE.
The Times correspondent writes from Berlin under date of July 19 as follows:
but will they be quiet on Mon- day?" was the rejoinder.
an
It is Monday that is to see the.. protest strike against the peace which, as the Freiheit has widely "There are some fine players
advertised, fs also to take place in England, France, and to whom we have to give a good
Italy. This strike has already many years," he said, "but I don't see anybody to fear parti-
embarrassed the Majority So cularly. I believe that the old Berlin is enjoying for the cialists not a little, for, having men will be at the top again yet. moment a bill in the storm of long sought the International Of course, the limbs and bones political emotions which has / during and even after the war- become a bit stiff when one is raged around it for so long. A without having the good fortune getting on in life, and every now stranger arriving to-day would to find it, their leaders do not feel. and again I have felt-and seen would never guess from extemal very much inclined to participate in other people—something very apperance that so much history in a protest of this nature at the like a cramped way of swinging. had lately been made here. All present moment.
They repre- sent Socialism in the Gover- But that is only because we have is quiet and apparently normal. been doing other kinds of work
In these glorious July days the ment, and, with
eye to and cultivating muscles that are city is flooded in sunshine from self-preservation the Govern- When we get morning till night. The test is a mental Socialiste have made too the right museles going again, I searching one, but Berlin emerges many concessions to the bourgeois think it will be shown that a man from it not unsucessfully, con-point of view to welcome any can play first class golf till he is sidering the enforced neglect of more strikes or disruptive pro- nearer 60 than 50,"
painting and repairs during the ceedings just now. On the other. war. As for the damage occasion-hand, the Independent Socialists, ed by the excesses of the who are animated by no tender revolution, its traces must be feelings for their Majority com- In every walk of life it is a nice sought for to be seen. To-day,rades, have hailed this opportuni- question as to whether the ex-indeed, Berlin is at the first to put the Government in a perience which comes with years glance steeped in the placidity difficulty and at the same time is an adequate set-off to the loss of a provincial town in the piping to right themselves with the
The lime public for having from the first- of youthful energy. Vardon is times of peace. satisfied that it is a very good trees in Unter den Linden are in advocated the signing of peace. counterbalance in golf. He points full bloom, and the air is laden
METHODS OF PROTEST. out that long training in the game with their perfume. The public
Hence, when the Freiheit issu- impels a veteran champion to at- gardens are properly tended, tempt with confidence the most scarlet geraniums in beds and ed a clarion call to demonstrate difficult shot in the perspective if long borders showing up brilliant on Monday, Vorwarts with pre- it will gain for him adly against the neatly mown grass cipitate heste denounced this of green lawns stretching away proceeding. Its action, however, vantage.
Very often it involves such risk into the distance. The verdure aroused so much astonishment that the slightest miscalculation of the Tiergarten and the Zelten among the rank and fle of
Socialists, will be fatal-the ball will be is restful to the eye and speaks Majority
who do of anything but war. hopelessly bunkered-just as
not appreciate all the finesses exact calculation will gain
of the party game, that stroke.
Vorwarts The less learned golfer
was obliged imme- does not care very frequently to chance this shot; he prefers to play safely for the par figura for the hole because if he attempts the other thing he is at least as likely as not to fail.
an
8
- MUSIC EVERYWHERE,
One does not think of war when diately to reconsider its attitude one passes the statues of Moltke and to advocate, not, it is true, a and Bismarck in their accustom-strike, but a whole-hearted par- ed places in the Konigsplatz, for ticipation in the forthcoming pro-
The Majority Socialists. they seem to a period as remote test.
If the designs for new German Manager. postage stamps, recently approved by the National Assembly at
as that of Charlemagne, and it is have resolved to hold their de Weimar, are to be taken as a "I think that 8 times in 14 the with something of a shock that monstrations, in various indoor criterion, the standard of art in experienced player will bring off one, suddenly comes upon the localities in the evening, while
It Hindenburg. Germany has deteriorated. More the very difficult shot in which he iron
stands the Independents have ordered an than 4,000 drawings were sub-allows himself only the smallest there, colossal, sombre," a absolate 24 hours strike and will mitted, mainly on Cubist and possible margin of safety so as to figures doubtless some day to demonstrate in the open air. Futurist lines, and 28 were secure the perfect effect, and that be removed but, while it re- aélected as suitable for reproduc-when he does not quite accom mains, a singular landmark of tion. As artistic efforts they are, plish it he will generally play it for the most part, crude in the in such a way as to keep clear of extreme, so much so that in some serious trouble," said Vardon. cases it is difficult to recognise That is where experience is an what they are intended to repre- advantage." sent. All are of an allegorical nature, and represent the re-birth of the German nation. As in the case of the French postage
will
NOTICE.
MUSIC LESSONS.
Professor Dauenburg resume his Piano lessons this month at No. 1, Albany Road. Hongkong. 6th September, 1919.
NOTICE.
The 8. 8. "CHANGSHA”. Hongkong, 9th September, 1919. sailed, from Sydney on 16th
PUBLIC AUCTION
of
HE Undersigned has received instructions from Mr. Lak Ven
their carge can be granted.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
THE Under spilt by Public Auction on WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, the 17th & 18th September 1919 Agents, Australian Oriental Line.
A CASE IN POINT..
16
A
SCENE IN THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY.
A special decision of the Gov- ernment has prohibited demon- history. The open air cafes and strations in the municipal area of beer-gardens are thronged with Berlin, for it has already had visitors, and as one passes in disagreeable experiences of such taxicab or droschke one catches exhibitions of feeling and now the strains of Tannhauser or some knows the value of foresight. It other favourite music played by is pretty certain that there will the orchestras engaged by every-be a partial strike of considerable. There were several illustrations one of these places of pepular dimensions on Monday, since of this successful taking of risks resort. Indeed, what strikes one the more Radical element pre- stamps of 1870, an attempt has in the champion's last round at as much as anything about the ponderates among the workers of evidently been made to secure St. Andrews, where; after being Berlin of to-day is the immense Berlin. On its side, the Govern- designs of non-political and non-
Every restaurant, cafe and beer-vent unwelcome, consequences. controversial nature for the first 10 strokes behind at the end of amount of music to be heard. ment will take measures to pre- August 1919 for Hongkong via stamps of the German Republic the first day, he failed by only house has its band, and this helps It is therefore expected that one stroke to tie for first to import to the city that air of many thousands of workers will porte, having grounded at Cairns, The subjects of the three place.
unreality which invests it. For appear in the streets on Monday, Approaching the third hole, for unreal this placidity certainly and that consignees of cargo by her are winning designs, for each of
their presence will which 2,000 marks was awarded,
necessitate the holding of a cor- hereby notified that they will be were: 10 pfennigs, an oak tree instance, he played to make his is.
The blockade and its effects are respondingly large military required to sign an Average Bond sprouting with young shoots (by ball patch less than a yard to the A Valuable Collection of Antique China & Curios and pay a deposit of 5% on c.i. f. Hugo Frank, of Stuttgart); 15 right of the bunker, so as to creep the subject of universal conver. in readiness for all ever force and c. value before delivery of pfennigs, a similar subject (by past the corner of the hazard and sation even now, when little by So once more the air is charged
Ernest Bohm, of Charlottenburg); run up to the pin. If he had
little things are improving. One with electricity. and 25 pfennigs, a bas-relief on been the sligtest. degree out in
his judgment he would have lost,sees many demobilised soldiers, the ancient Egpytian style, very likely, two strokes. But he peddling English and American depicting a young,mason bearing made the ball alight in exsets cigarettes and American choco-
The bitterness between the trowel beside him (by Georges the spot that he had selected for it,late from the occupied regions. Mathey of Berlin). Another and it ran up to within a yard and There is a strange contrast be- approved design shows a Phoenix a half of the hole and he secured tween the rigid military discipline Government Socialists and the of former days and the go-as-you- Independents has increased dur rising from the ashes. These
please bearing of the soldiers of ing the last few hours. Herr uniformly Whether years ever breed in to-day. In Berlin the salute is Noske's vigorously worded prohi stamps, which are inscribed Deutsch National decisiveness I do not know. Two still given to, and returned by bition of the holding of demon- Versammlung 1919" will shortly holes from, home Vardor looked officers with a punctilio leaving strations within the municipal replace the horrid-looking to be certain of tising for first nothing to be desired by the most area of Berlin is represented by whose place. It has been recorded how, captious, but the men are like the Independents to the workers. This school will re-open design of Germania,"
seventeenth
as a new emanation of his auto Tuesday September, 16th. Board-militarist aspect was condemned approaching the
cractic insolence." shot and so finished short of A SOLDIER'S FOINT OF VIEW, June, 1918.
The Vorwarte once more adjures 5-coloured, 3-coloured, blue & white vases, plates, bowls, flowed ers return Monday 15th Septem- by the Reichstag as far back as with his mashie, he pulled the men relieved of an incubus. pota, incense burners, figures, porcelain placques, red lacquerer ber.
There is likely to be a separate the green and behind the bunker issue for the new Rhineland guarding it. He tells me that I talked with two Gaurds to-day the workers not to strike, declar vases, famille cose screens, very fine crystal vase & agate ornaments,
State, but what will be done in the explanation of that slip is standing before one of the prin- ing that "the strike is a new Enuff bottles, jade ornaments, old bronzes etc. etc..etc.
simple, with something of a cipal military buildings, and asked crime against the Germanpeople, tha case of Bavaria
The violent antipathy, between. heartache in it. He changed his them if they thought the Republic out retained the right to issue mind while he was playing thewould remain. They replied the Majority. Socialists and the Wurtemburg, who have through- their own postage stamps, is not shot. He had resolved to go for Yes, the Republic has come to Independents found expression yet apparent. At present, two the green. Then, Just before stay, but it really does not matter in the National Assembly separate series are current in hiting the ball, he wondered whether it stays or not, provided terday when, to a propost Bavaria, under the Red Republic, whether he ought to risk the road we can get some one to govern vote of thanks to the Army, the first comprising stamps with beyond. The result was that he us properly. It is a matter of in-Independent asked
did nothing that he wanted difference whether we are govern this debate to and with
ed by a Monarch or a President, of praise to wholes the portrait of the ex-Rege
an with capacity Herr NoBico overprinted Volkstaat Ber
the scrimony that he
commencing each day at 2.30. p..
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street..
A Valuable Collection of Antique China & Curios
from the Sung. to Towkwong Dynasties.
comprising
also
A Few Pieces of Soochow Redwood Ware
N. B. The Undersigned will give one week guarantee as to the
genuineness of the articles offered.
On view from Tuesday, the 16th inst.
Geo P. LAMMERT
*
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