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WANTED. Immediately steno-tyjust state previous axparience and salary expected Reply to Box. No. 1019 e "Hongkong Telegraph."
TO BE LET.
TO LET. Modern European House, with Garden at No. 5, Peace Avenue Flomuntia, can be accupied immediately. For parti culars. Apply Box 395 Hong- Long Telegraph.”
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TOLET-High-class_RE- SIDENCES (East View Buildings), opposite "Sai Terrace," Nathan Road, Kow loon three-roomed fats. ventilated. with
well bath, water
closet, kitchen and servants quar- ters. For particulars apply to Mr. Lai Chak. No. 14. Queen's Road Central.
~ENTRAL offices to let. Top
door 8 Des Voeux Road
Central Vacant from the 10th. November. Apply Inter- national Trade Developer S Des Your Road, Central.
FOR
FOR SALE.
SALE.- **THE TOWERS-20 BROAD- WOOD ROAD Furnished or un- furnished, five bedrooms with bathrooms, all modern con- veniences, reception rooms, smok- ing room etc.. Farden and tennis court. Apply Linstead & Divis. Alexandra Building.
LOST.
Ferry
OST. On Kowkon.
a platinum bar brooch. Finder please return to Box No, 443 1.P.C.
1 OST - On the 9th Novendes,
COrder issued by the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Hong- keng, for $1427.03 in our favour. Finder please communicate to Cie. Commerciale d'Extreme Orient, & Gross Street, Hong. kong.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
STRIES for the seventh re at the Extra Gymkhana Meeting to be held on 1st. Decem
er next will be Post Entrie-.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
AN Extra (ymkhana is fixed.
for Saturday 1st. December 1923. Draft Programmes and Entry Forms may be obtained at Race Course. Hongkong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.
Special St. Andrew's Prrie)
gramme.
Entries close on 17th. Nov, 1923.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
have this day removed
NOTICE TO CONSIGNES HUGHES
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTE.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per
Our Offices to No. 4. Quean's building. Top Floor. Franco-Chinese Trading Co. Ltd. Steamer
OR WHOLESALE - BUYER
WANTED SOLE: SAGENT FOR THE WORLD FAMOUS SELF-GENERATING ELECTRO AUTOMATE POCKET LAMP
BATTERIES
NO ACCUMULATORS
REFILLS
INEXHAUSTABLE
THE SIDLINE TRADING CO.
29. Avenue de Friedland
PARIS (80)
Apply:-Mr. B. Sidline Room 204
HONGKONG HOTEL.
|
Company's
"SARPEDON "
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1923.
& HOUGH
AUCTIONEERS
AND
GENERAL BROKERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received jinstructions to sell by Public Auction (for Account of the Con- corned),
on WEDNESDAY,
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Hoh's Wharf Kowloan, where it will lie at Consignee's risk and subject to the 14th November, 1929, com terms and conditions of storage at mencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be Rooms, No. 8. Des Vœux Road, ready for delivery from Godown Corner of lee House Street, on and after 12th. November.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given priorĮ to steamer's arrival.
Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture and Household Sundries, &c, &c. &c. Comprising:
All broken chafed, and damagec
Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofar. goods are to be left in the Armchairs (new), Tea Tables Godowas, where they will Taakwood Beds, large and small Jexamined on any Tuesdays anci
Fridays between the hours of Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and 10.45 am and noon within the Chairs. Washstands, etc., Side boards, Dinner Waggons, Crockery free storage period.
No claims will be admittec and Glass Ware, Cutlery, Carpets after be Goods have left the and Rugs, Electro-plated Ware.
You get the best of
VERYTHING
ELECTRICAL
Backed by expert advice at the
ELECTRICAL DEPT:
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY LIMITED.
NEW FISCAL POLICY.
Catchwords Or Common. Sense.
ART IN AUSTRALIA.
The Different:"
Landscapes.
The economic strain is beginn-| An exhibition at Burlingto # ing to tall, and British industries House of Australian pictures, are calling on the Government to intended to give the people of this help them through the bad times. country some idea of art in the The woollen trade, the lace trade.Į Commenwealth, has been opened the leather trade, and even the by the Duke of Connaught in cotton trade are bringing their London. The exhibition is difficulties to the State's notice, mainly the result of a suggestion. and agriculture is particularly made by Lord Northcliffe during loud and insistent in its complaint. his visit to Sydney in 1921. This All these suffering industries suggestion was taken up and contend that the competition among those who gaveit vigorous which is injuring them is unfair. support were Lord Forster, the but agriculture submits a special Governor-General, the late Bir case on the ground that the William Davidson, Governor of unfairness which oppresses it is New South Wales, and. Damo permanent. Other countries, itNellie Melba The date of the maintains, regard their agricul exhibition was fixed 1923, as at ture as a national asset, and the time, it was understood that shape their economic policies the British Empire Exhibition accordingly; whereas England was to be held this year. After deliberately sacrifices her agri-the plans and preparations culture to industry, and is con-had been made, however, the sequently threatened with the British Empire Exhibition was disappearance of arable farming. postponed, and it was then foo
(on
steamer's Godown, and all Goods Electric Reading Lamps, Teakwood JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE. The manufacturing industries, late to alter the request to the remaining undelivered after the Screens, Blackwood Teapoys, Mar [19th. November. will be subject|ble-top Flower Stands, Side Tables
and Cabinets, etc., etc.
to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer! must be presented to the under signed on or before the 3rd December, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be leffected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents. 12th November, 1923.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.
LIMITED.
(Incorporated in England)
DANIYAS ARNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Beautiful selection of
English drapery and linen. Italian silk.
sold by yard
at the cheapest prices "ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
Ronra 23.
only three days.
REPAIRING
ROYAL & CO.
Fo twear Specialists. Tel. 3237.
1. D'Agular Street, Central
HOUSE PETERS who stars in RICH MEN'S WIVES THE CORONET
also played the principal role in "ISOBEL" "THE STORM" and
+
HUMAN HEARTS"
THAT OUR
DO
ICE CREAM YOU
SODA
KNOW?
ว
AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIM
IS THE MOST UP-TO-DATE IN "S. CHINA. ALL INGREDIENTS ARE GUARANTEED AND ARE MIXED
BY HYGIENIC MACHINERY.
ON LOK YUEN
OPPOSITE DRAGON GARAGE
to Shareholders in the jabove named Company that the Special Resolution to wind up the Company and the Extra- ordinary Besolution providing
Also
One Piano by Challen and Son
London
(Full Particulars from Catalogue)
Terms:-Cast on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong. 7th Nov. 1923.
DO NOT MISS-
ROCHA'S
POPULAR AUCTION SALES Every Tuesday' Thursday
& Saturday
At 2.30 p.m. Specialist is the Valustion of Household and · Office Furniture
DA ROCHA'S MART
for the, distribution or sale of the 24. "D'Aguilar St. Phone 2931 Company's holding of Shares in
the Hongkong Tramways Limited |
(Incorporated in Hongkong) of The Chinese Government Salt
Revenue Department.
NOTICE.
We hava over 100 views of damage at Tokyo and Yokohama
on sale.
MEE CHEUNG Ice House Street, & Beaconsfield
Arcade.
NOTICE.
Miss Annie Wallace Deceased.
the contrary, insist that Council of the Royal Academy their difficulties are transient, and for the use of their galleries. that their competitors enjoy a The venture is not a commerci- temporary advantage due to the al one: the pictures have been abolition for the time being of collected from the various gal- the gold basis for prices. It fol-leries and private collections in lows that, so far as appeals to the the different States, and in some State are concerned, the manu-few instances are the property of facturer and the farmer stard on the artists themselves. Great very different ground. Both in-care has been taken in selecting vite protection, in the most gene-the best works available, and the ral sense of that controversial details of the enterprise have term, but whereas the industria been entirely in the hands of the lia! asks for temporary relief, Society of Artists. To the British the agriculturist protests that public the names of a few dus- nothing short of a complete tralian painters, such as Lambert, and
change permanent British fiscal policy can
io Streetoa, Longstaff and Roberts, in-are already known; but there is a sure the further cultivation of the large and growing school whose having PERSONS
claims soil These are different claims work, while commanding high against the estate of the and must be handled with due appreciation within the Com- ahove named deceased are ro-distinction by responsible states monwealth, has yet to acquire a quested to forward the same to men. The world is admittedly in reputation beyond its shores. the Undersigned..
an ugly plight, and there is an "A notable characteristic of obvious case for emergency mea- modern Australian art is the rise Messrs. Percy Smith, Sethsures until better times come. of the school which paints Aus- Calls for temporary help deserve, tralian scenery, and in a state- therefore, to be examined on their ment issued by the promoters of merits and with due sympathy the scheme it is claimed that one such as they can only receive if of its aims is "to try to show the |they are carefully distinguished British people the land in which from calls for a new permanent we live, a land where the sky, the policy.
[sta,and the landscapes are differ- This isa matter which demands ent from anything seen elsewhere the clearest thinking, and which in the world." above all things forbids surrender to the facile charm of catch- words. Catchwords are the be-l setting danger of democracy. What can be more seductive than
J. H. SETH.
& Flaming.
THE NEW PARROT REMEDY.
THERAPION No. 1 THERAPİON No 2 THERAPION NĖS
Na & for Madam Osharti. "No 2 for Hall a ERIK Exams, Ha. ↑ for thewĽH VAIKSEM BABY GEARINA REUSITS. PRIOR DE INGLATKI.
CIVILISATION NUISANCE”.
MOTOR EXHAUST
FUMES.
which notice has been given to the Shareholders having been! fconfirmed and
the i passed Registers of Sbarebolders in the. above named Company both in! London and in Hengkong will remain open until the 30th day THE Chief Inspectors of the of November 1923 for the
Salt Revenue Department
a sweeping formula which pro- A Warning to the Public. purpose of registering transfers Desire to warn all whom it may of Shares after which date thefconcern, that they do not re-
mises to make everything right?! We must insist therefore that|
Remarkable evidence was given said Registers will be closed and cognise the appointment of Mr. BS Salt Com-
there is no virtue ia aat the inquest at Bristol on Mr. the Liquidator will proceed to a Wu Ju-kang,
catchword. nut distribution of the assets of this missioner, nor that of Mt. Sang
** in Samuel Wesley Britton, age forty, those famous catchwords, Free boot manufacturer, the son of Mr. Company among the persons, Tre-wen, as District Inspector of
Trade and Protection. which G. B. Brittan, formerly M.P. for appearing as Shareholders upon the Kwangtung Salt District. the said Registers in accordance The acts and orders of the Is civilisation decaying? This not long since dominated our Bristol East, who was found dead with their rights and with the above named persons in their is to be answered by six of the political life. Even in their best sitting in his motor car.
Mr. Britton had suffered from said Extraordinary Resolution. illegally assumed official posi-cunctators of the Fabian society days these words did not repre-
tions, are therefore invalid, and at a series of lectures which were sent eternal truths or heresies: peurasthenis, one of the effects constitute a violation of the to be given in the King's Hall they merely summarised alterna- of his condition being that he was Loan Agreement concluded this mouth. reports a Home paper.tive means of dealing with an given to sitting quietly by himself, between the Chinese Republic and the Foreign Powers.
Hongkong. 3rd. Nov. 1923.
W. F. SIMMONS, For and on behalf of EDWARD RITCHIE MORRISS,
Liquidator.
Hongkong, 5th Nov. 1923.
RADIO-MAGNAVOX Loud
Speakers and Amplifiers.
G. B. S. Questions Its Disirability.
But the sixth, Mr. Bernard Shaw, winds up with another question, Is civilisation desir-
Batteries, Insulators. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. |Eleg Here are some of the
Crystals, Aerial Wires, and all other parts.
DE SOUSA & CO., LTD., St George's Bldg, 2nd Floor.
Tel. No. Central 1264.
MASSAGE HALL
MRS. S. UZUNOYE, Expert HasseuLO
&T Queen's Road Central ind. Floor
LIGHTING
WE shall be pleased to submit designs for any special Work.
ARCHITECTS DESIGNS CARRIED OUT IN DETAIL
FITTINGS FOR EVERY PURPOSE IN STOCK
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY LIMITED.
Sanitary Engineers
Monumentalists, etc.
Offices &88A, Wanchai Road, Godowns.
Hongkong
Tel. No. 269
Just Received a new supply of
"S" & "P" TRAP_CLOSETS.
All kinds of Builders Re- quisites in stock for immediate Delivery.
TWO CONCLUSIONS.
3י
cause
Five of them Mr.Sidney Webb, actual economic situation. But a practice which he often followed M.P. Mr. H. J. Laski, the Hon.to-day there is no actual situa- when motoring. Recently, how- Bertrand Russell. Mr. St. John tion: there is only a flux which ever, his relatives had not been Ervine. and Mr. R. H. Tawney we must endure as best we can so anxious abent him.
In his evidence at the inquest answer in the affirmative.
until the principles of the world's new economics begin to emerge. Benjamin Finch, a barman et a restaurant, stated that he heard the sound of an engine running Two conclusions inevitably in the garage at the rear of the heads of his discourse
follow. The first is that this is premises át eight o'clock, and at
time The promptitude with which no
for propounding a 10.45 the engine was still running. this question is answered in fiscal policy. No fiscal policy He entered the garage, which the affirmative is always in the can be efective unless it is was in darkness and full of petrol inverse ratio to the sensitiveness, solidly based on public opinion, femes. Mr. Britton was sitting in incelligence. culture, and ex- and is not exposed to the hazard the car, apparently dead. Dr. perience of the person answering at every general election. Peel Barker, who was called, tried realised this truth, and accom-artificial respiration for forty-five "Civilisation i3 mainly aplished a fiscal revolution because minutes, but without success. device for establishing and bewaited until opinion' was ripe The post-mortem examination indications of CBT- securing individal property, but-fand then waited no longer: and revealed side very narrow limits. is a Mr. Bonar Law. was tria to the boa monoxide poisoning, which
the spirit of Peel and to his own strong was
of nuisance..
death, doctor adding Nine-tenths of our people are commonsense when hedeliberate-the
that wasting their lives in a hopelessly excluded the fiscal issue from the gases from the exhaust of a attempt to acquire more property his programme. The plain fact is motor car were very poisonous. tharthey need: the remaining that conditions do not admit of its In fact, 1 per cent. of carbon teath waste theirs in looking settlement. But it is equally mimoxide in the air would kill'in after and increasing the super-plain that we must seek for solid ten minutes.
Recording a verdict of death fluous property they already ground wherever it may be found,
and that it is to be found within from asphyxiation, consequent "Life in poor countries is the four corners of the British upon breathing carbon monoxide,
Empire. As things are to-day the coroner edded that visibly easier than in rich ones.
Comfort is civilisation: and the Empire provides for all its thought it desirable that the comfort, like property is alinhabitants the only market public should be aware of that
which is organised on a sound fact "Nothing is more 'Gertain, than and stable financial basis, and it that hardship is necessary to is this fact which gives such PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO health and that preoccupation immense importance to the forth at first glance. Hitherto a call with comfort is the most deadly coming Imperial Deonomic Con-for constructive thought on sort of hypochondria.
ference. This, then, is the second Imperial trade, has broughtTM The supercomfortable are the point which requires to be borne the rejoinder that Britain's
Was present] market
the world. natural prey of the operating sur-in mind during the geons: while the Esquimaux. critical phase of transition. and has provoked controversy who do not know what comfort With the collapse both of world based on an often barren opposi- MING YUEN STUDIO is, are apparently the only happy trade and of world competition as tion of phrases. Catchwords and healthy people now in we knew them before the war, a ain! At least the field is now existence.
the Empire can be viewed as clear for a common-sense survey. "Givilisation is also an imposi-forming an economic system of of the Empire's business resources tion of clothing, housing, and fits OWL. The difficulties of and of the opportunities which it cleanliness. The right to sleep British industry must therefore offers to each of its component out and to be reasonably dirty is be considered in close connection parts. Such a survey, combined, championed only by trampe and with the Dominion markets, as we have suggested, with ane beachcombers.
Further than that we cannot go emergency stops as dir *The benighted bourgeois bars as yet, and there is no formula dictate, constitutes s the way to his own salvation, in which can alter thees dominating to the needs of the the name of what he calls all the facts. The positionslay, however, rich in· possibi decencies of life.
Estimates free for all kinds of
Sanitary work-Monumental work in Italian Marble & Hongkong Granite.
A new Stock of Artificial Wreaths Just Arrived-from 8" to 18" diameter.
GENERAL REPAIRS
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more promising than it appears davelopme
he