NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
WANTED-Chief Officer and Chief Engineer for the new Motor Ship "Teck Lee" about 340 tons register. The "Teck Lee" will trade between Siam, Straits, Java and China carrying rice outwards and general cargo homewards, Chief engineer should have a good working knowledge of Die- sel Motors, the guarantee En- gineer will sail for some time- Apply with copies af testimon- ials etc. to the Owners, Messrs. Berli & Company. Limited, Bang- tok, Sisu
TO BE LET.
TO LET.-One room on third floor of Princes Building for month. Kent moderate.—Apply Box No. 607 co Hongkong Telegraph."
TO LFT.--Six roofed 'bouse, Bowen Road, can be divided into two self-contained flats--Apply Caer Clark. Architect Queen's
Road Central.
TO LET-3 Roomed Flats 11.) Nathan Road, Tavri Building. 2nd Floor, Kowloor. Apply to J. P Vasuna. 38, Wyndham Street. 1st Flror.
FOR SALE.
THE HONGKONG
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
AND SHIPBUILDERS.
The Literary Council begs to inform Mambers and their friends that a paper on
Refrigeration & tre-Making. will be read in the Rooms of the
Institution by
Mr. T. G. Stokes, (Member) on Friday, 16th September, 1921. at 9.00 p.m.
S. BAKER, "Hon. Secretary.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (81) per share for account 1921 will be payable on Monday the 19th September 1921. hareholders aro requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, Hongkong.
THE TRANS ER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 10th September 1921. to Monday the 19th September
1921, both days inclusive.
THE
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers.
COMPANY LIMITED.
TELEGRAPH.
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB,
ILLUMINATED
CONCERT
OD
SATURDAY, Sept. 17th
At 9.15 p.m.
A GREAT PROGRAMME OF STARS
...
supported by the BLUE JAZZ BAND
Admission $1.00 by permission of the Gioveromant. A few reserved seats $1.50 Booking at Moutries & the Club.
Late Peak Tram 12.45 a.m.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
The Bank of East Asia, Ltd.
Notice is hereby given that the Bank of East Asia, Limited, will nose on Monday, September the 19th. to their new premises, No. 10 Des Voeux Road Central
Hongkong, Sept. 14th, 1921.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Owing to Interport swimming COWIE HARBOUR COAL Contests the original date. Oct. 18th. has been reverted to for SILIMPOPON COAL |bex: Gymkhana.
Draft Programmes and Entry The undersigned are prepared Forms may be obtained at Race to quote prices for best quality Course, Hongkong Clob and freshly mined SILIMPOPON Stables. Entries close Tuesday FOR SALE.--One Tangyes; COAL. trimmed into Bunkers at 27th September. Suction Gas Engice.
- Otto SEBATTIK
SANDAKAN principle. ordinary
32 (British North Borneo) or to B.H. speed 180 RPM. Can contract for regular Bunker Sup be seen at Pokfulum Farm. For plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- particulers apply Superintendent able rates. Engineer, The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd.
FOR
type,
SALE.-One Chandler chummy roadster (4 persons excellent condition, $,3000. Owner leaving Colony. Apply Box No. 608 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."
LOST..
LOST OR STRAYED.--One
**
HONGKONG CLUB.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921.
ROMANTIC FIND OF 381-CARAT DIAMOND.
Fortune Through A Child's Diness.
Bo-
ON WEARING A MONOCLE.
The Eyeglass Englishman.” **Roughly sneaking,” “azyx a writer in the New Statesmu “no man using or wearing a monocle Details which have renobed should be appointed to any public England of the fading of the post in the United States.
lieve me "nothing short of his fine "Are" diamond in South Africa simplicity and intel sotual in- red like a chapter of romance.
tegrity would have enabled Mr.| It was christened the "Aro" William Archer to get away from the initials of the three men with L who combined to purebase it--
And, first let me cipar away the |Mr. Allen (Bowden, Cheshire) Mr.suggestion about my good friend Russel (Barkele West, Sirical and colleague William Archer, and Mr. Crudgington (Moseley, writes" Alpha of the Plough." h Birmingham). It weighs 381 is true he carries an eyeglass. carats, uncit.
and I have seen him ол Bomo weeks ago three men, occasions use it to examine doen. Scheepers, Kaltenbrun andments. But he does not wear an Smith, set out from the Transvas! eyeglass, an he does wear spec- diggings Mosenberg. where a tacles. Neither in fact nor jo new field was shortly to be open-spirit can be be included in the ed. Smith bad his wife and little ranks of the Exeglass English- boy with the party.
Sor, indeed, can all those
шал.
A few miles out from Barkley who do wear an eyeglass be in- Wes: the boy became ill, and cluded in that category. I have: forced the party to cease their known many men who succeeded trek and camp at Gong-Gong. in wearing an yeglass withour While the mother was nursing offence. I have even known a her child, the wen, to fill in their lady who wore one so naturally idle time, went to work digging in and with such a suggestion of the vague hope of picking up some trifle. Matters went from bas to worse; the diggers had no luck.
and finally the party were r daced to living on maize meal
and little else
unconsciousness that your-eli
were almost u conscious that she wore it.
But, generally speaking, an eye- It is an class is an ostentation. ostentation because it is so much more natural, easy and unaffected THE CHILD DIES.
to wear spectacles, which serv In such circumstances it is precisely the sale ures. You little wonder that the sick child put a pair of spectacles on your grew steadily worse and died. nose and forget all about them. Atter the funeral there was no And the world forgets all about reason for staying in the un-them. You cannot do that with lucky and apparently unprefitable an eyeglass. The world cannol camp.
o that with so eyeglass. When But a chance visitor, a manjit thinks of Mr. Austen Chamber- named Els, had pointed out a bit lain, it thinks of an eyeglass as of ground and had strongly advis inevitably as when it thinks of Nelson i thinks of so armless ed the diggers to give it a trial.
They decided to follow his sleeve, or when it thinks of Ri advice, and at the end of two days chard III. it thinks of a bump they were "into" pot clay, the back. An eyeglass is as trouble. soil in which diamonds are usual-some as a faverish baby. It is an NOTICE. Steamers calling at SEBATTIK
occupation. It is always drop- ly found. or SANDAKAN exclusively for
The First yearly Drawing of
Then fortone came to them, ping out and being reaffixed with Bankers are exempt from pay-
an ugly contortion of the muscles ment of ordinary Port Charges. Twenty Debentures of the Hong-literally at a stroke at one stroke of the eyesocket. And if, by long The minimum drát: of water kong Club (1920 issue, $500 each) of Kaltenbrun's rick. He pred practice, it is kept in position alongside the Company's Wharf was held in the Club House on UP omething which he took to without contortion, you are in- Thursday, the 8th September 1921. de a piece of crystal, something at Sebattik is 28 feet at low water
feat is performed and waiting for Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie when the following Lebentures so big that, it seemed ridiculous sensibly teps wondering how the
a could be suppase were drawn for Redemption Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and ans
the window to drop ont. call required information concerning
diamond. Scheeper was 100 442 603
In a word. a monocle calls ed to examine It, 139
and the part can be had on applica-|
497 £35
attention to itself. It is although he. too. pronounced 172 495 743
s calculated affectation. It is 79 295 332 805
against it being a real "stone"
anoouncement to the world BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
he washed it in a bucket of water. that we are someone in particular. Agents.
and examined it carefully again.and that we expect to be treated The partners bong over their with due reverence. It is as find, scarcely daring to bope, much a symbol of class con- dazzled by the possibility of alsciousness as the red tie of the fortune in their hands; afraid of Socialist. and it is much more the blow that would follow the vulgar, for the red tis is an asser- decision that the stone was notion of human equality, while the diamond.
monocle sats up a claim to social THE REAL THING.
exclusiveness. The wearer of the But their hopes were well-red tie wants everybody to wear! founded. Diggers crowded round: red ties. The mors red ties the the stone was examined and re- merrier for him. But if one morn.
tion to
CO. LTD.
28
48
68
80 354 601 820 and
Gordon Setter pap (bitch) fare The COWIE HARBOUR COAL Hoagong & Shanghai Banking! and hind paws white. Finter please return to the undersigned
or otherwise will be prosecuted.
F. M. L. Soares, c/o Soares & Co...
Alexandra Buildings.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
will be payable at the
Corporation on Friday, the 30th September 1921, in exchange for surrender of same.
By Order.
A. II. ARBAS. THE Undersigned have received
Secretary. instructions to sell by Public Hongkong, 8th September, 1921.
Auction or
Saturday, the 17th Sept., 1921.
to
it
cominencing at 12 o'clock (noon) THE HONGKONG TAILORING examined was pronounced amiding Lord Dundreary flate of the
The Ordinary General Meeting: of the above Company will be beld at the Company's Offices 20.83 Des Voeux Road on Friday Sept. the 30th instart at Noon.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell
Street
lengths Mild Steel Bar
5 bales Green Stripe Gunnies.
216 lbs.
24 cases Disinfecting fluid
1 case Ink -2 casks Oil
43 coils Galvanized Wire
16th to the 30th of September 15 boxes Press Buttons both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, 9th Sep, 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE and STRAITS.
THE Steamship
"IYO MARU.” having arrived from the above ports. Consignres of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be 2 sorted out mark by mark and de-1 livery can be obtained as soon as the Gooda are landed.
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon, To- day.
Goods not cleared by the 23rd subject Sept. 1921, will be
to rent
3 dozen Black Lotus Calf Lea-
ther
dozen Chrome Willow Hide 20 dozen Kola Astier
30 dozen Sirop Allux -
COMPANY.
TO OUR KOWLOON CUSTOMERS
Take Notice that on the 12th. September receipts Numbered 8129.
760, 8190, 8188, 8112, 8025, 17900. 691, 455, 8177. 8175, 8101, 18100, 705, 704, 688, 501, 500.
of
wild excit ment to be the genuine Guards) SAW της whole thing, and worth a fortune. Piccadilly bursting OUT into When the news reached Barkley monocles, every policenian-west- West, the centre of the Griqualanding a nonocle, and every cabman West allovial diggings, diggers wearing a monocle, and everybody and diamond buyers burried on in the bases wearing a monocle, horseback and in motor-cars to be would feel thas the pillars of Gong-Gong.
the firmament were, tumbling
The diamond was weighed, and down. He would take off, bis 799%, 7999, 469, 167, 488, 2876. bids began to be made to the monocle and grind it under his He must belong to AD 7941, 4223, 623, 8062, 8058, 638. lucky diggers, bids of amounts heel.
exclusive set or cease to find life 657, 4517, 8143, 8140, 7923, 7813, that to them appeared fabulous.
4.
The philosophy of the eyeglass
7806. 82. 81.47. 742, 17. They kept their heads, and re-liveable. 6, 4257, 709, 2022, 2452, fused to sell until they could get] 3376, signed by us for collections their ad properly valued. were lost by our shroff on the It was bought at last by the
3 Natural Musquash Fur Muffs Kolosa Ferry on his way to bres 4 Rabbi Pur Stale
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
TH
HEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
6
Monday the 19th Sept.. 1921 commencing at 11 am.
at Honsban Godown. Kennedy Town cases Tinplates pieces Iron Pipe case Oil Three in One Case Clocks
58 sacks Flour
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
THEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examin- Anction op"
.
ation by the Consignees and the Wednesday, the 215 Sept., 1921 Co.'s representatives at an ap commencing at 2.45 p.m. pointed hour on Tuesday and Friday. All claims must be pre-
at No. 5 Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon sented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re-
A Quantity of Valuable
Houseball Furniture
collect the same..
ber accounts.
is explained in the familiar story f Disraeli and Chamberlain. men mentioned for a When the famous Israelite, who BUM which is & secret. was an artifice from the curl These receipts were in respect bus which certainly ran plastered on his forebead to the of our July, August and Septem- into many thousands. It was sole of his foot, saw through bis christened The Arc, and has al-eyeglass the terrible Radical enter Our customers are respectfully ready taken its place among the the House for the first time, bel asked to pay their accounts for world's great gems.
turned to bis neighbour and said;i these months direct to the shop 1c, D'Aguilar Street.
Our company will begin to send out Shroffs on 1st October. next month.
Hongkong. 12th Sept., 1921.
IS YOUR BABY GETTING
HIS TEETH?
How Baby's Own Tablets Help.
"
The diggers are, made men, but "He wears bis eyeglass like a the child who was their making gentleman.” He was satisfied. lies buried in the quiet littleThere was no reason to fear
one of cemetery on the Veldt near the Birmingham. He was spot where his father found us." No one would say that So tortune.
and-so wears his spectacles like The largest diamond ever found gentlemin any more than be was the Cullinan, which weighed would say that he "wears his hat It was presented by for his boots) like a gentleman " 3,025 carats. the South African Government to What Disraeli meant was that) King Edward. After cutting Chamberlain' could do an absurd there were two large diamonds of thing with the air of one 316 and 309 carats, now among who was doing an ordinary thing. the Crown jewels, and several He knew how to be conspicuous Every parent knows the worries | smaller ones,
without being unhappy. He wore that come when baby is teething. Among other famous jewels is the badge of the superior person Many parents have found in the Koh-i-noor, which weighed asif he had forgotten it was there. Baby's Own Tablets help which 800 carats when uncut, and was He wore it as though Nature bad seems almost magical at this reduced to 279 carats. A diamond decorated him at birth with the of 635 carats was found in the Order of the Eyeglass. He was a trying time.
By assisting nature to get Jagersfontein mine in 1895.------ Perfect Gentleman. There is wrong conditions right these)
nothing wrong in being a Perfect Tablets promptly ease the pain)
Gentleman. It is a very proper and bring natural sleep. from
ambition; but we ought not to which the baby wakes up rested
label ourselves PerfectGentlemen.
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and refreshed. They gently. An unconfirmed report says: I do not know whether we in- regulate the bowels, cool feverish-Telegrams from Mexico City state vented the monoole, nor do I ness, cure infantile indigestion, that the Obregon Government are know whether it is peculiarly colic, diarrhoes, colds, expel desirous of arranging a fight be Boglish institution. I fancy it is, whose export abroad and espacial- where be can do no wornis, are guaranteed absolutely tween Jack Dempsey and Jack In any case, it is the universally to the United States, dose harm. After all, be dode nos cognized. No claims will be ad- (Fall particulars from catalogus) harmless to even the youngest Johnson as part of the festivities attribute of the stage English-The warning of the writer in the us. He is only an in müited after the goods have left On view from Tuesday the 20th infant. the Godawns.
September 1921
اس
· NIPFON YUSEN KAISHA,
Agents. Hongkong, 16th Sept., 1921.
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
next September in celebration of man abroad, and America where New Statesman" is badly need of us. Why should. Chemists sell them, also post Mexico's 100 years of independan eyeglass would be an offence ed. Let us keep the Eyeglass to make us, misunderstood by free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. enes. The purse proposed would against the unwritten law of the Englishman (whether he wears people who dislike the idea Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Sze-be as large as that or the Demp Republic, it symbolises all those an eyeglass or not) at home social caste and all its appare chuen Road, Shanghai.
manners of the superior person where we are used to him, and tenances? sey-Carpentier contest,