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MERT.

FIONEER," APTRAISTIN

AND SURVEYOR.

Public Auction-

HZ Undersigned has receivett In

ht

TUESDAY,

January 14, 1919, commencing at 4 45 p..

at No. 1 HUMPENYA BUILDING,

A QUANTITY OF

SALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Comprising:→→

Teak bistand, "Chestarield couch & Armchaire, blackwood desk, armchairs, gables, terpoys & Lower stands, marble clock, Japanese silk embroidered screen, ,pictures, ornaments, casement curtains,

carpet, skin rugs, etc., etc.

Teak artension dining table and chairs, teak sideboard with bevelled mirror, dinner waggon, teak bookcase, ice chest, electric fttings, dinner crock- ery, glassware, etc, etc.

Teak twin bedsteads, sivale & double wardrobes with bevelled glass doors. toilet table, tiled top washstand, woollen blankets, toilet crockery, etc., etc.

And

A Quantity of Paims in Pota Also

Cottage Piano by Moatrie, Shanghat{

(in fine condition)

1 Victrols with cabinet and records.

1 Perambulator.

INTIMATIONS

METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

| Automobiles for Hire and for Bale

at reasonable Prices;

**Phone 2500.

65, Des Vaux Boad

Central

KODAKS

& FILMS Plates& pers. Developing & Printing Undertaken.

A. TACK & CO.,

On view from Monday, the 13th inst. 28, Des Voeux Road Central

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioceer.

Hongkong, January 7, 1918-

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE..

FR. JOEN ROBERTSON

this day been admitted a partner

in our firm.

W. A. HANNIBAL & CO.

HONGKONG AND CANTON,

January 1, 1919,

HONGKONG, DEFENCE

CORPS.

DAIRY FARM NEWS,

BUTCHERS MEATS:

Beef, Mutton, Lamb. Rabbits, Hares.

Kausages,

Purity,

Brawn,

Pressed Beef Excellence.

WE BUY used

THE

THE CHINA MAIL.

"GARRICK

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Manafo

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

"ROSS'S "BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturer

High Class English Jewellery.

LAMBERT & BUTLER'S MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES,

GARRICK

CIGARETTES

ARE MADE FROM THE HIGHEST COST

AND MOST DELICATELY FLAVOURED

TOBACCO

GROWN IN VIRGINIA.

SOLD IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF 50 CIGARETTES AND OBTAINABLE AT ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This advertisement is Saned by Brissh-American Tohanes Co., Ltd

TO-DAY'S DOGGEREL.

holler,**.

The Services who raised a Now have their wish-a two-hab dollar Let Hk now go fighting for the

gents

TAJÓB H. A. MORGAN POSTAGE STAMPS, Who in the dollar can't pay fifty cents.

MA

OFFICERS invite all Members

of the Hongkong Defence Corps to Smoking Concert at the Theatre Royal on FRIDAY, the 10th January, 1919, At 9 PM, when the prizes won at the recent Corpe Bise Meeting will be presented by H. E. The Officer Ad- ministering the Government (The Hon. Mr. Cland Sepers, C.M.G.)—Undress uniform.

Hongkong, December 31, 1918.

"THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION N0.2 THERAPION N03

Mo. 1 for Windder Gelarsi

ka-I for blood ¿502 Dizanaes. No 1 for Chronie WeaİNCESUS.

SIRE TRADE

ZBEKIS, BOTT. STAND APPLEEN TO

MARTIN'S

A PIOL & STEEL LISTEDPILLS

A Frasch Mazały tarali zresenkarttan.

Motory Pintu tho komen,'sa that on the fan{}

MARTIN'S

SAPIOL STEEL

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION."

"15, Morrison Hill Rosa.

NOTICE

HIGH CLASS PRINTING

BOOK BINDING

¿POSE AT--

THE ORINA MAIL OFFICE 800X8& PAMPHLETSASPECIALTY

Trads Cirentars

BANDIER, NIenus, etc., eta Artistically ̈Arranged And Carefally Printed.

Prools and prompt

Collection and Large Lots for Spot Cash.

-

Tell us what you have for sale,

Do not send without first writing to us.

GRAJA & 00.,

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong,

PATELL & CO.

ORIENTAL PRODUCE

EXPORTERS,

SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS,

Agencies in

NEW YORK,

BAN PRANCISCO, USA.

Branches:

CANTON,

YOKOHAMA, BOMBAY. HEAD OFFICE

BONGKONG.

„JAPANESE MAKERS, Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

!

A PRAYER FOR YOUTH.

1

God who created me Nimble and light of liroh In three elements free.

To ran, to ride, to swim:

Not when the sense is diņ,

But now from the bead of joy

I would remember Hini

Take the thanks of a boy."

ON SOME BAD WAR POEMS.

They justify the darkest fears I entertained aforetime- These profiteers and sonneteers

Who blossom forth in war-time!

Which is the worse, the man who makes

Money that don't belong to him," Or who, whoa Haig a city takes,

"Promptly indites a song to him?

BALE OF A MOUNTAIN.

"Ben Loyal, a mountain in Suntherland shire, has been sold pdvately to David MeJerrow, of Lockerbie, acting ch behalf of a client. The upaet price, was £188,000. Ir includes about 20,000 acres of the Duke of Sutherland's property nd- joinlog. the estuary known as the of Tongue.

THE LITERARY GENT.

All day he sits and plies his pen, The loveliest of lonely men. No glory, no advertisement, Attends the literary gent.

He writes that he who ruts may read

The message of his humble screed,

Or tella's simple tale to please The people in their scanty ease.

The daily round, the common task,. Are blessings that he date hot ask. No harresi nay be his to respon Of hard-won rest and dreamless sleep,

ZIOW TO AVOID INFLUENZA."

ORDER but through the hope.

CHERRY & 00;

PEDDER STREE Opposite Hongkong Hosal, Telephone : No. Anton

Hongkong March 20, 1914-

les

(1) Do not breathe through the mouth,

(2) Ds sony and water for washing the

foside of the bow night and Ing gargle with clean water

(3) After forcing yourself

night and morning, tako

piratio

(4): Do not wear a muffler"

'(6), Inko, shor

me frem

MARRIED A MARSUPIAL.

BABOONS DYING LIKE FLIES."

They were looking at the kangaroo at The Natal Witness

charges the the zoo, when an Irishman said- Beg Government with responsibility for the pardon, wr, phoat hind of a creature is rapid spread of the epidemic of Spanish that?! Oh," said the gentleman, influenza. It says the authorities per

that in a native of Australia."Good misted infected persons to travel about hiving! exclaimed Pat; me sister the country, and declares that if it had married wano thim.”

DID YOU EVER THINK OF THIS?

VERMICELLI

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.

An Poster for Label and ate free and Cheton are the A-LLs our Poster bear the “Booster? label and are mands from Flour að lbs. Bart

principal enniponents of Flour. Glaten is endise to digua and contains more nutriment than Starch Manufaakured under the most sanitary conditions, women Largo quantities have boon.exported to various important citiae in the Wajal,

Terma moderate, especially for agencies.- Orders

A per executedipromptly THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Head Offon : No. 47 and 43, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong; Telephone" 1930. Principal Factory: No. 71, North Boochow Road, Shanghai, China; Telephone 3388. Branch Factory: Wing Hing Stress, Causeway Bay, Hongkong, Cable address: “Hinowan,

COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

-FANCY -PERFUMES,

HAU DE COLOGNE,

TOILET BOAPS,

MANICURE SETS.

SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTE.

COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

14. Queen's Road, Central.

Talspacos No. 009.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM,

J. H TAGGARTI

MANAGER

THE PEAK HOTEL

been a cattle disease every necessary pre 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

caution would have been taken. The

journal asserts that on the figures avail-| able the mortality is approaching 30,000. A curious feature of the outbreak is fa

The person who takes up his daily newspaper every morning seldom gives ported from Uitenhags, in the eastern

a thought to the continuous labour in province, namely, the prevalence of the

epidemic among baboons, which are

dying like fies."

FIVE FRENCH PRISONERS.

volved in its production and to the athount of work entailed, by every issue in a country where the 'compositors and. Hintype men bave only a trifling kno- ledge of the language in which the paper is set, while every trazslation has to be Of the five French Singaporeans who carefully stunned and corrected before it have beca prisoners in Germany, three can and its place in the paper. More are now known to have been liberated.. oyer, the prizes of the profession in this Mr. Jean Limage, of the Messageries. Fart of the world are wholly incommen Maritimes, captured at Soissons in 1915,

sarate either with the labour involved or

the public service rendered, and it re- was interned in Switzerland over one quires a fund of good spirits as well is year ago, and B back in France. Mr. city to continue at the engrossing Paul Dupire has just arrived in France: tusk each day with unabated energy-

Japan. Chronicle."

Mr. Francis Clouet, whose capture date

A LOVE STORY.

as far back as the end of August, 191-4, in Maubeuge, kas managed to escape from the cual mines of Westphalia where he had been sent and to reach The Hague

• It was indeed a beautiful night. The gentie zephyra. played musically amid the delicate fronds of the tornip-tops, and from where he informed his parents In wafted from far distant fields the subtle Havre News is expected to arrive soun perfume of the luscious onion and the from Mr Albert de Bruise, made prisoner fragrance of decaying cabbages.

near Verdon at the same time as Foul

Betsy, he whispered, as they sat together bit the fence surrounding Mrs. Dupire. Will gard to Mr. Jean Hobber- Filligan's pig-sty, few beautiful you don, of Fathe Freres, nothing has been bel, Jes thinzy of it, Betsy, When us heard of him in Singapore, since he was be married us will have a pig of our own captured in Lorraine, at the beginning Think of thaf, Bstey

*** Jan," she whispered, a note of Te seulment in her voice, what do I care for pigs27 shan't want to pig when I've got you

af 1015:

À LAUDER STORY.

Then all was allent once more, save I happened to be in Government for the musical froles of the zephyrs office yesterday afternoon, writes o Lon

alremly mentioned

HEROIC NAYAL SURGEON.

do correspondent on October 1, when

M Harry Lander, who is engaged in many forms of war service, these days, was how in the presence of the The gallantry of a savai auryena 'in famous munke hall artiste always suggeste rescuing a petty officer pinned by the Harry Lander stories and, after he arm in a collision between two destroyers had gone, one was told which was be was recorded in the "Gazette," which to me. The school teacher had asked her space the award of the Albert class to came the chest zien in the fedal to Surg Lieut. William Fryer world, Sir J., Bartie and It, Harry ensere Harvey, R.N., Sup Lieut. Barres, whe Lauder was the quite unexpected reply I was out on board the zooredericusly of one little girl. You," said the swaged boat on hearing that a stoker teacher a little dubiously. But what ound the petty-afiver was pinned by the arm in abos millionaires like Rockefeller,

damaged compartment, at once went down Fazderbilts and the Astors,

sad and amputated the arm, althougs the they got a lot of money

boiler room was flooded and full of fumes replied the smil, giri, but they from escaping oil. After performing the some of this. This letost Boottin

(3) Sleep with ope flows and keep operation be collapsed, and bad to be story when related at the circumstances hauled out of the com tufente. At, 403|ment,ened brought down the house- 18) Avoid Taboxicating liquors and eat time the wip might have broken in two otherwise utile gathering of Gov

the Ved warın... Do not

fenty of murishing food. Porridge and all hands were faten, in en dock oficials, most of, whom happctce

Wearing lifebelts,

from north of the Tweeds

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mra. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

VICENTRAL LOCATION:

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS unitary entering or unflat and Lighting European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Beat of Food and Service

Telephone 373 Talegraphic Address: VICTORIAL

J. WATCHELL,"Manager,

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

*(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cumine ander the personal expervision. of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooma. Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphis Ad : “PALACE”

HOXBERRY, Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL.

(TEN ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE CULANT.)'

ICH HOUSE STREET METADA

Under Azorican Management Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Bank's and Central District 3 Bedrooms Epellent Culsise, scrupulously clean,Moderato Tartás. Monthly and Fadly Estes on application to the Proprietress." Laughes meet Passenger Bosta

MES. F. E CAMERON. Telegraphic Address “CARLTON "

BLUE BIRD

CONFECTIONERS.

CATERERS

IOE OREAM PARLOUR.

TANG YUK, Dzasz

the late BIEX TING STAIST

TERMS VERY MODERATE Contation free.

HOTÁNA COLD DRINKS

DEALERS INAS Gimbal's and Orange Sawayan Blossoms: 900; American Chocolate”. Assorted Fancy Cakes:

GOLD PHE OFFICE. NEILDING,

FOLD Queen's Bold. k. Padder Street,

We

Bread

We use the highest grade

in their Manukectare.