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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1919.
FOR PLASTER WORK AND RE-INFORCES CONCRETE. CONSTRUCTION
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FOUNDATION,
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ETC:
STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETS, AND PRICES ON APPLICATION.
Quotations for description of Machinary ve Engineering Plant on application so
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-
Principal features, Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value. F. Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Erent of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25.
PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICULARS TO WRITE FOR
SODWELL 蕊 CO
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Agents.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883.
MANUFACTURERS (OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
3 STRAND
CABLE LAID 4 to 15"
5" to 15" VIRUUMPARENCE, OTROCHFERENCE
A
4 STRAND 3" to 10" OIRCUMFERENOM.
Ou Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in langth Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
OWING to the present bigh Tate of EXCHANGE we are now offering our KODAKS and FILMS at very lowest
possible prices. Inspection cordially invited.
A. TACK & CO.
20. Des Vœux Road, Ctl.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
12
COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.”
In Casks of 375 iba. not. In Bags of 250 Ibm met.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. A SUGA 8 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
Kr. U. SUGA
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock! in the Colony.
SINGON & CO.,
(Established A. D. 1830.) ..
THING LUNG ST. Phone $15
General Managers.
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up.....$1,250,000.)
Loans on Mortgage of Benas Property, de Gooda troeftad en storage. Antanas made on Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident Sreten..
"TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLA, ATOBNET, an Undach hen and Ezavolel (Zales and Pardesianon appilmed) To the Office of
BHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO..
in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
AND
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
MASSAGE HALL
23. FLOWER STREET.
MR. T. TAKAYE, MRS. MORITA. CERTIFICATED MASSEURS. PATIENTS TERATED IN THEIR OW Box
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PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.
THE
with Provincial & Foreign Sections,, enables traders to oczustnicate direct wich MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS
GENERAL NEWS.
A GOOD BEGINNING,
Dew
Tokia Japan is prompt to be gin the education of its charges under the direction of the League of Nations. From the South Sea islands for which Japan is mandatory, 41 natives have been brought to see the wonders of their new mother
Each year country.
Daw delegation is to visit Japan. Ono month will be spent by each party in Japan. Needlessly to say, that they will be given a good time.
BRITISH GRATITUDE
London. Ruanda `and Urundi ceded by Great Britain to Belgium after Britain was made mandatory for German East Africa by the peace congress, form the richest part of the former German East Africa, with a population of more than 3,000,000 natives.
"The gift," says Lloyd's Weekly, "is a mark of British gratitude to her ally.
WIFE'S SUPERIOR WISDOM. - Mr. John T. Dare, baker and cafe proprietor, of Porthcawl, left all his property, valued at over £2,586, to his wife. In his will. written in indelible ink cn'a piece of ledger paper. he declared that he left it to her superior wisdom and judgment to deal fairly |with his chiklten, but he strongly advised her to give a double portion to his daughter Hilda- who is not able to battle with the deception found daily with many we come into contact with in our daily walk in life."
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LONELY WIDOWER WANTS A WIFE.
At a meeting of the Portsmouth Guardians recent by a "lonels widower" serving with the garrison battalion in India, wrnțe making application for a wife. He to the board that if they had a likely young lady he would be very glad to take her off their] hands. She most he good, straightforward, Church of Eng- land, honest and must not mind housework. He also desired a photograph and particulars as to age, and so forth. The workhouse committee was to take the matter. in hand.
DEAD WOMAN'S COLD.
A suggestion of a missing hoard of gold was made at an in- quest at Hackney recently on Mary Ann Warman, aged 80. who, after being missing for some days, was found dead in a flat in į: Garnbam-streer. Stoke Newing- ton. The Coroner said there was rumour that gold in some
a
quantity had been found in the room. A nephew of the deceased denied having seen any gold. The Coroner's Officer questioned him as to whether the undertaker had not found a hoard of gold and handed it to him, but he denied this. The Coroner, in re- cording a verdict that death was due to senile decay. said, he should take charge of a bank- book which was found letters of administration produced.
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NOTICE.
Tyres Made with a Determination to Make Them Good
You will find this spirit animating the workman bending over his ma- chine- the inspector keenly vigilant for fault or flaw-the floor foreman checking the work as it leaves his department.
You will And it evidenced in the long list of Good year contribu- tions to the tyre business--contribu- tions, in machines, in methods of manufacture, in factory and sales practice.
You will find it expressed clear- est in the Good year Tyre itself. For the effort spent the eco- deavours for improvement, made. the scruple exercised to make these tyres good, have had effect.
Goodyear Tyres really deliver great mileage at small cost.
There is a certain way to prove it, if you are dubious-by fitting them to your motor car. You will be surprised at the result
SOLD EXCLUSIVELY ST
ALEX RO33. & 09.
4. 0 72:31 10
GOOD YEAR
THE NEW SNOBBERY,
REVIVING THE “NEWLY
RICH" SNEER.
profiteers had no
CLAIM AGAINST JOHORE GOVT.
Judgment has been delivered in the Johore Supreme Court in
business to the claim brought by Mr. Graham
enter the swagger hotels eni Hutchison. naval architect.
restaurants which she patronises.; against the state of Johore in the
Yet she's never done an honest sum of $95.000 10 recover cost of
day's work in her life, and the labour and materials supplied
ancestor who founded bez in opening up and constructing
family's fortune was himself miles long Home paper:
Mr. Ward Muir writes to a profiteer, by road about
the standards of the
state of Johore.
his day. Some of the minor items The English are a nation of were allowed. the calculations snobs. thereon to be adjusted between That is the opinion of a Can- the parties. Pending an agree-adian friend of mine. ment on that head. the matter of Not once, but many times, he costs, and counter claim by the has heard typical Pall Mall club state of Johore has been held in men and society hostesses sneer- "I think it shocking-every aberance, which amounts practicing at the nouveaux riches. So he sane individual thinks it shock- ally to the defendants having won tells me. And this, he maintains, ling--that anybody should have on the plaintiff's claim. Mr. M. Jis a symptom of the revival of a become rich through the war,“ Upcott appeared for the plaintiff, snobbery which, before the war. he added. But the parties who, while Messrs. V. D. Knowles and had almost died out.
by exactly the same methods- C., B. Cooper represented the Jobore Government. MAGISTRATE SUMMONED IN HIS OWN COURT.
My democratic friend pointed out that in Carada and America the mail who makes money and rises in life is respected, "not sneered at. whatever his original starus.
man
NOTICES.
Buy a
Hamilton Piano
Special Tropical Model $450.
ROBINSON'S
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
Tel. 482 24, Des Voeux Road Central. Tel, 487
Agents for South China:-
HUDSON,
ESSEX,
CHANDLER, OVERLAND CARS
A consignment of HUDSON and ESSEX Cars
expected shortly.
Orders may now be booked. Cars for hire. Lessons in driving at moderate inclusive prices.
FOOK LEE & CO.,
always in stock, large quantities of
Tinplates, Wirajnails. Pig Lead. Pig Iron, Steel Plates, Black Sheets. Galvanized Wire, Galod Sheets, Yellow Metal Sheathings & etc.
Telephone
1174 & 1950.
"Nos. 2 & 4 Hillier Street, and cl Fork Building, Chinter Roat,
Noble's
VALUE
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COWORLD
FAMOUS
Famous, not only in
the Old Country, but throughout the World,
are the superh values obtainable from John Noble's.
You should send to day for the won- derful 68 page Catalogue, giving full particulars and hundreds of illustrations of the very latest styles in Women's, Men's and Children's Wear. Dress Materials, Footwear and all kinds of Household Requirements, such as Linens, Sheetings, Curtains, Bedding. Cutlery, etc.
Buy all such geois direct from England from. Noble's, the actual manufacturers. and thus save middle profts. Everything offered you by Noble's will give you extreme satis- faction in quality of material, design, work- manship and price.
To save writing to England in the first place, copies of John Noble's Catalogue may be obtained, post from from the "Hong Kong Daily Press. "Hong Kong
PATTERNS John Nchic, Lad,, will gladly send
a splendid selection of patterns of dress materials post free, on application to Manchester.
REMITTANCES (in fall) should where
ever possible be sent by Money Order, or by Bank Draft, payable at sight on London or Manchester.
Brook St Mich.
JOHN NOBLE Manchester, Eng.
"You--had to go back many namely, business' (or worse SINGAPORE AS AIR STATION, Hessened if competing machines years in the volumes of Punch, ones namely, filching land from
were fitted with floats at for instance, to find pictures of the nation). became rich before
Calcutta and continned the uncouthe vulgarians in over the war, are living in glass-houses, A QUESTION OF MAILS. ljourney as sea planes, as there are several suitable harbours Mr. John Ashby, the chairman ing at scandalised butlers." he gesture of virtuous indiguation furnished drawing-rooms shout- and it is fancy to observe the
and inlete on the route to of the Feltham magistrates, was said. "Now those pictures are with which they throw stones. summoned at Feltham recently reappearing in your humorous
The Singapore Free Pressrecent-Australia. The journey will, of -The working
wholy commented-Brigadier Gen-course, eventually be made, but for, the balance of unpaid rates weeklies, the only difference be-strikes for higher wages is merely eral Borten. who was here some we are sceptical of the cos amounting to 8s. 10d. He LONDON DIRECTORY occupied a seat in the well of the ing that the nouveaux riches who imitating his betters that is, months ago with Capt Ross mercial and practical value of it.
court, and when the case was figure in them ате labelled trying to get as much money Smith, surveying the route to The results do not seem to be. called he stood in the usual place war prater. The implication as he can; and for those betera ported in London and his repart be taken. Of more interest to us at profiteers. Australia by aeroplane, has re- commensurate with the risks to in front of the dock. Mr. Ashby
there is a well-bred class born is humbug. And for him to decry is being studied by those who the present is the announcement. did not deny that he owed the with the right to mansions and them is equally humhug it is proposed to take part in the air that the Orient Line is resuming money, but argued that the rates
motors and menservants, and their snobbery in an inverse sense. race between Britain and Aus-its fortnightly service to Aus- forms, should be demanded on separate that persons who have earned "One of your business magnates tralia, for the prize of £10,000, tralia, and although mail vessels
Mr. Hoare, the rate collector, said the demand was
money to command these lozuries moaned to .me that his most of the routes planned out from Colombo have been decided- and the Colonial and Foreica Market upped; made on the usual forms ap-contemptibls outsiders."
are necessarily ill behaved and stenographers were fashionably taking Singapore as the jumpingly scarce for some years, they dressed and powdered their noses. off post for the last stages. The will probably be resumed in time, proved by the Local Government
The feeling against profiteers But his own daughter does the Air Ministry states that beyond and then there will be an alterna- Board and the system was adopt-is so string, this Canadian critic same. Only a snob would have Calcutta the route lies over tive route for outward mails to ed by other authorities. Mr contended, that the nouveau failed to see that such conduct country far from favourable for the Far East, and an additional Freeman (another magistrate) riche encer CA aid that the rates were for the its innate anobbery ought to kill parasite on her paps was actually expressed the view that if the way. nothing further seems to gets across" when for the girl who was a mare seroplane flying The General regular line to Australia. By the same union. He understood that it it was a matter of principle with!
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less justifiable than the same fight is to be attempted this year have been heard of the fortnight- A copy of the directory # be sent by parcer-Ashby, and perhaps the order simply ridiculous, the way some by honest toil, have
**Why,” be remarked, "it's conduct on the part of girls who, only aeroplanes possessingly maila by the Blue Funnel boat
earned range of 2,000 miles could make from Birkenhead, which wouki of the Local Government Board of your pre-war rich folks talk freedom and freedom's privileges, the attempt with any hope of probably have served the Straits should be produced. The case At dinner the other night my
"However, I must add that I success. He therefore recom- very well indeed, and obviated -- was adjourned for a fortnight for neighbour was an aristocratic found those typists just, as mended, as has already been the inconvenience of having two the. Local Government Board lady, and she spoke, as though snobbish in the outlook on shop announced by telegram, that the malls at once after a fortnight's Forder to be produced...
these people whom she called girls and dome servants. difficulties would be considerably. Interval, as happened, this w
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