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IG. P. LAMMERT.

T

AUCTIONEER, ÅFFRAISER

AND SURVETOR Public Auctions-

E Undersigned, has received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction,

ON

FRIDAY, May 23, 1919, ̈

commencing at 11' m.z..

At his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.

3 Cases Arctic White Glass

Cases Ground Chocolate

3 Cases Cocca Fowder

* Cases Vanilla Chocolate in tablets

Cases Chemist Sundries

7 Bales Chair Springs

19 Dinner Services

40 Dozen Coffee Cups and Saucers

Also

Two Balon White Woollen

Blanketa

(in low to vuit purchasers), Terms-Cab on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, May 20, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

G.

.R..

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS-DEPT.

NOTICE.

EMPIRE DAY

Department will be open for

all purposes till Noon on SAT | URDAY, the 24th May. Licensed Warehouses will be entirely CLOSED- un that day.

.D. W. TRATMAN,

Superintendent. Imports and Exports.

Hongkong, May 9 1919.

HONGKONG POLO' CLUB

EMPIRE DAY.

IKEATHER PERMITTING,

A

POLO CLUB GYMKHANA will be held at the Rack Course Happy Valley (by kind permission of the Stewards, Hongkong Jockey Club) on SATURDAY next, May 21th, at 4 p.

Admission 81.00 (incluling Tea). Children under twelve half price.

Programme includes:-Teat Peg- Brain- Fever Race Mounted Combat, &c.

inz

Cash Sweeps.

S. E. GRIMSTONE, Thon. Serelary.

Hongkong, May 10, 1019.

THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON &

GLOBE INSURANCE CO., LTT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that,

oving to the Undersigned pro- ceeling home on leave, MR. RIGBY H. P. KEWLEY, will take charge of the Company's Hongkong Branch as Acting.

scal Manager a from 21st inst.

JOHN DE B. LANCASTER,

Acting Local Manager.

Hongkong, May 19, 1919.

SIEMENS CHINA ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPANY, (HONOKONG) IM MITND. SIEMENS CHINA CO, BERLIN FRANZ EMIL AUGUST EHRHARDT.

REDITORS are required to send in their claims against the above to the uadareigned Alexandra Build- ince, Dan Vieux Road, on or before SATURDAY, the 31st May, 1919.

C. BERNARD BROWN,

Liquidator.

Hongkong, May 20, 1919.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY,

INTIMATIONS

THE CHINA MAIL.

METEOR GARAGE W. D. & H. O. WILLS

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire --and for Bale

at reasonable Prices.

'Phone 2500.

65 Des Voeux Rond

Central

PREMO

CAMERA"

$1.50 only

Kodak Catalogue Free on application.

A. TACK & CO., 26, Des Voeux Road Central.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

SAVE YOUR CLOTHING FURS & CARPETS by storing them in our Cold Stores for the summer months where no moths, ar vermin cun attack them. For particulars as to packing and rates apply to —

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

Place your orders carly

Jor

FLAGS

Portugal and the ALLIES

hemas realy for use

for

PEACE CELEBRATIONS at moderate price.

GRACA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P: O. Box 620.

Hongkong

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHER

Icc House Street

All Photo goods supplied

Films, plates,

Self toulag papera,

Velox papers.--

Just arrived. ·

Branch Opposite City Hall.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEEL CHERRY & CO.

ING of the Matters if the shave i Society will be bell on THURSDAY, 9th June, at 515 pm. in the Hony. Secretary's Office 18 Cbarer Koud, (Bong Kong Club Aanex).

AGENDA (1) To receive and pass the Committes' Report and Statement of Accounts (2) Election of Officers. and new Committee for ensuing year.

H. B. L. DOWBIGUIN,

Huny, Secretary.

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Hongkong, May 20, 1919.

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MARTIN'S

SAPIOL & STEEL

COMPILLS.

FEDDER STREET. (pronsita Hingzong Bobil Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

CRICKET

SCORING

BOOKS

CAN BE OBTAINED

AT

BREWER'S

$2.

PHOXPHOE

HIGH GRADE

"Embassy"

NO. 77 CIGARETTES.

The CigarettE DE LUXE

Embassy

IN: 77

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

Are made by scientific processes from scrupulously selected and perfectly matured in: Tobacco of the Hither Grade only. They are for that reason preferred and demanded by Sporting men of all kinds.

Their World Wide Popularity is based

lapen their unquestioned excellence..

CAN BE OBTAINED OF ALL HIGH FLAM TOBACCOMSTS IN TIES OF

71 AND 10 AND BOXES OF IN

W.D. Q H. C. WILLS, BRISTOL D LONDON

ON SALE AT ALL STORES.

This Advertisement is issued by British-Americae Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.

NAVAL AND MILITARY

NOTES.

Major J. C. Farmer, RM.L.I., one time Intelligence Officer at Hong kong, has been awarded the order of. "Officer, Order of the Crown of Roumania."

Admiral Sir David Beatty, G.B.B. G.C.V.O., D.S.O., now adds Grand Cross Order of the Star of Roumania

to his many decorations.

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observers of aircraft, for the destruc- tion of the German cruiser Breslau on Jan. 20, 1918.

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The battleship Iron Duke has left Portsmouth for the Mediterranean. She is to be flagship of the squadron, and the Admiral who will com mand the squadron will join her at Constantinople. The Marlborough was expected to leave Devonport for the Mediterranean on Thursday, but the Bertbow, Ajax and Centurion may not be ready for some weeks.

At an inquest at Portsmouth it was stated that as L.-Com. G. F. Parsons, R.N., aged 37. was going down the steps of the dry dock to get to his ship, the Nivella, in the dark, be slipped and fell a distance of 25 feet. receiving an extensive fracture of the skull, from which he died. There were no lights at the spot. The Coroner, in returning a verdict of

Accidental death,' expressed the opinion that the Admiralty authorities should make the spot safer.

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Since the armistice 52,579 officers The Admiralty announce that they -A naval officer who has had a and 1,947,879 men have been dis- have rescinded their decision with good deal to do with lower-deck charged and demobilised on March regard to naval and

marine politics tells me (says Truth) that he- 14: pensioners who have been on active attributes the marked success which

service.

These men will now receive has followed the principle of letting

Capts. A. J. Mackenzie-Grieve fo the full gratuities instead of only half the men discuss their own affairs to Colossus: H. W. Bowring to Beller- gratuities.

the fine type of petty officers whoophon: W. H. D. Boyle to Tiger. have organized the various commit- Cinmdrs. W. G. A. Kennedy (in Details of the Firs: Garrison tees. Whils: this is a tribute to the command), E. G. H. De Boulay, both Battalion of the Northumberland petty cfficer, it is also gratifying to Daidem; B. P: MacMahon to, Fusiliers and the First Garrison evidence of the views of the men Renown: F. E. B Feilmen to Dido' Battalion of the West Yorkshires, who selected them as their repre- Lt. Cmdr. J. S. Morrell to Triad, which are retained in Malta, have, sentatives. I believe it is true to say Lt. B. R. Beauchamp to Cheonatra. been amalgamated into one battalion, that the tone of the lower-deck was and designated the Malta Composite never better than it is to-day. Let Battalion.

us trust that the Treasury will not attempt to baulk the Admiralty in quibbling ever the cost of fostering this spirit.

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Mr. MacVeagh did not get rauch encouragement from Mr. Churchill when he asked him to set up a tri- The Parliamentary Arty Com

bunal to which officers would have mittee met during the second half of March, 65 members from all parties

the right to appeal before being being present. Colonel Burn moved

drummed out of the Army on the A curious position in regard to parte evidence of their accusers. that the service afloat or with the freight money in the Navy was We cannot interfere with the law as Colours of ex-service men should be revealed by the action in which it is, said the Secretary of State: and record as counting towards total

Admiral Sir H. King-Hall and Rear if there were any law the answer service under the Crown for pension Admiral. A. W. Heneage sued for would be a, correct one. But there

qualifications. A sub-committee, consisting of Colonel Burn, Colonel Archer Shee and Captain Albert Smith, was appointed to deal with

the matter.

دیشه

payment for the carriage of bullion is none. and no matter how cruelly amounting to several millions on a an officer has been persecuted he can land. It seems that the Admiralty without getting it, The only appeal he warship from South Africa to Eng-whistle till Doomsday for justice

informed the officers that such pay- has is to the men who have charged, menta were abolished. The Judge tried, and sentenced him. The appeal The destroyer Turquoise, built by held that this was a wrong con- to the King under Section 42 of Messrs, Yarrow & Co., has just passed struction of an Order in Council the Army Act is a ridiculous farce. her official trials on the measured made in 1914 to terminate the old There is no reason whatever why a mille at Skelmorlie, when a speed of system of distribution. At the time the court of appeal for officers serving 396 knots was obtained during foar issue of a new Order was evidently under the Army Act should not be hours' continuous steaming. The Turquoise was fully equipped, and

intended, but that step had been constituted on precisely the same bad fuel for a run of 1,000 miles at omitted, and in consequence the claim lines as the existing civil Court of of the plaintiffs failed. It came out in Criminal Appeal, to which convicted cruising speed. It is understood that evidence that the Admiralty, while prisoners are entitled to carry their this is the highest speed yet obtained erroneously declaring that freight cases before the sentence of the court by any destroyer,

money was abolished; nevertheless below is carried out. The Army With a view to assist in the man the carriage of the gold in question time, but not from the military au itself received freight in respect of will get some court of this kind in ning of the destroyers and submarines from South Africa. Under the terms thorities, whose ideas of justice are} which have been given by Great of the statute of 1819 the Admiralty limited by the dictates of their own Britain, the Commonwealth Govern: would seem to hold auch moneys as arbitrary will. To be of any use ment is increasing naval pay 14 per quasi-trustees for the Fleet, and the the proposed court must be an out- cent. This will cost £100,000, and matter ought to be put right by a side on independen: of the Secre will bring Australian naval pay up to

new Order regulating the distribution tary of State and his military mýrmb- the level of wages paid to skilled of the fund.. During the war over dons, whose decisions it will be re workers in civil life.

ane hundred millions of treasure have quired to review and, if hecessary, been carried by the Navy, and the reverse. Whilst walking along one of the freight money must be a substantial roads in Portsmouth Dockyard sum. The two admirals sued. of recently, George: Porter, recorder in

Commodore Edward Reeves, who course, in the interests of the Navy recently took over command of the a sail loft, was knocked down by a generally, and the fairest course Royal Naval Barracks, at Devonport, steam coal trolley and sustained such would be to add freight money to has gone on the war path against injuries that he soon afterwards died.the prize fund.

He was a prominent Labour official.

Preparations are being made, for

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the popular but rotten gamble known

as "Crown and Anchor." The Com-

Early in the year H.M.S Temeraire modore has already become too the distribution of the Prize Bounty played the French ship Mirabeau at Popular as a sportsman to be sus granted to HM. ships Raglan Mrugby on the Crimean battlefield. pected as a faddist. He has adopted 23, Lizard, Tigress, Supernal, Anchor The Toneraire's team won by 218 novel and ingenious mode Lof Hope II., and certain pilots and ↑ points to miles

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1818

NOTICES

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions

Agesta for-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S “NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS.

BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.

and the

LL our Fastes bear the "Rooster label sadare made from Flour of the Bost Quality containing large percentage of Gluten. Starch and Gluten are the principal composants of Flour Gluten is easier to digest ad contains more nutriment than Starch. Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions.

Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World.

-Torms moderate, especially for Agencies Orders executed promptly. THE-HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Head Office: No 47 x 48, Connaught Road; Central Hongkong; Tel: 1230 & 9230, Principal Factory: N 1, North Boochow Road, Shanghai, China, Telephode 3385. Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong Cable Address: "ErsdwaË”

KEEN COMPETITION.

LADIES AND GENTLEMAS.

CHANDLER

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Please notice The Breezy Garage is giving Special quotations with the latest and newest design CARS ON HIRE for the coming Seasoni

*passengers. $8.00 per Hour. HUUSON SUPER SIX 7

.97.00 " OAKLANDS

$6.00

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Wisc patrons never go wrong once they decide to patronise us. Weekly or monthly trips can be arranged at the Office.

THE BREEZY GARAGE,

OUR MOTTO

Drink less patent medicine and take moré ̈ matering.

$1, Des Voeux Road Central, Opposita Central Market.

'Phone 9490.

fust landed a large stock of Goodyear and Goodrich. Tyres and Tuber

at lowest prices. Sizes 34 x 4 and 32 x 4.

Please Ring, Write or Call

W

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC

**WESTINGHOUSE"

PUTS THE STAMP-

OF

CHARACTER

ON. AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE.

FOR SALE BY:

Mr. TANG TSUN,

Proprietor and Manager.

WESTINGHOUSE

ELECTRIC CHAFING-DISH.

GERIN, DREVARD & CO. TEL 114.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND --

GRILL ROOM

J. H. TAGGART, MASAGEL,

THE PEAK HOTEL

1,500 Feet above Sea. Level,

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrance, Electric Lifte Fana and Lighting A Europesa Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Sytem throughout Best of Food and Service.

Telephone 373. Telegraphic Address :--' VICTORIA."

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minates from Star Ferry),

sad entirely under new management. Cuisine ander the personal supervision Recently renovated and refurnished, alectric light and fane throughout

families on application to of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Terme moderate. Special terms to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add.; "PALACE”

J. H OXBERRY, Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL.

{TER ONLY AMKANCAY HOTEL DI TEM COLONY.) ICE HOUSE STREET

Under American Management Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family" Rates on application to the Proprietrom. Launcher meet Passenger Boats.

MELF. E CAMERON.

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BLUE

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CATERERS ICE CREAM PARLOUR

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G. MOUSSION. 15, Morrison Hill Rond,