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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.

AND SURVEYOR

-Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned bas received ins

THE

don

tructions to sell by Public Auc-

on

TUESDAY, October 81. 1019,

commencing at li mimi,

at his Sales Rooms Duddell Street,

5. Dozen Scarves-Asserted colours,

20

20

11

10. 230

.30

ני

Woollen Socks-black-

embroidered clocks.

Black Silk Socks—plain, Brown...

Atkinsoula. Eau de Cologne

Wit

Atkinson's. Eau de Cologne

Soap indo boxes."

20 Travelling Rugs

Also

A Selection of Custmere and Tweed

Sult Lengths.

180 yards of Superior Mannel Shirtings,

(muitable for Shirts, Blouses and Pyjams).

N. The above coods are of a Superior Grade and will be sold in Eats so scit purchasers..

Terms: Cash on delivery.

On view from Monday, the 20th inat.

GED, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, October 16, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB.

THE Opening Craise of the Season

will be held on SUNDAY next, October 19th to an anchorage balf mile Kart of Obaonel Rocks.

Kuce pro grammes are being sent to members.

SCHOONER BETSY ROSS."

LL CONSIGNEES and HOLDERS

mentioned schooner are requested to communicate with MR. N. J. PERRY, SINGAPORE, S.S.

Aof Bill of Lading on the above

BOXING.

of the Chaplsin,

Bbaxing, ball-punching, &c, will

EM.

be taught by the well-known tuxer, KID Marriott, at the SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE, 21, Prays East, Waochaí, twice a week, on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, Ibm 3.45-7.15 Special Issons by arrangement. Wat any who wish to have lessons' please apply to The Manager MR. R. W. BRISTOW. Terms by arrangement. 'Pre-payment requested. Telephone 2874.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,

No

★TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of A. S. WATSON A CO., LIMITED, will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, on MONDAY, the 20th day of October, 1919, ati NOON, for the purpose of considering, and if thought fit, approving, the draft how Articles which will be submitted to the Meeting. A copy of such Articles and a copy of the existing Articles may be auen at the offices of the General Managers in Alexandr Buildings. Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong. In such copy the portions of the proposed new Articles which differ from the old Articles ara indented by underlining in black ink.

Should the Meeting approve of such Articles with or without modification, the subjoined Extraordinary Resolution will be proposed :----

That the new Articles already "approved by this Meeting, and for

the purpose of identification "aabe "cribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted the Articles of the Company to #he, exclusion of and in substitution:

for all the existing Articles thereof."

Should the Resolution to passed by the required majority, it will be ubmitted for confirmation sa a. Special Besolution to a second "Extraonlinary General Meeting which will be anbuë- guently convened.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, Hongkong, October 10, 1919

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NOTICE.

LL PERSONS with the exception A of persons of Chinees race, wishing

to leave the Chiny mast have in their - possession. VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in poss-asipit of pasuporta. will not be allowed to leave the Colony,

All persons, with certain exceptions, who ra nais in, the Colony for more 7 days are required to Register than themselves under the REGISTRATION PERSONS ORDINANOE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the parti palnes required may be obtained at the G.F.O. and at all-Police Stationë,

The Penalty for non-compliance is a fin aot celinx $50.

E. D. C. WOLFE, Captain Buperintendent of Polico, dongkong, Beptember 22, 1919. -

INTIMATIONS METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire and for Sale

at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500.:

65 Des Vau Road Central

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA a large shipment of LACTOGEN.....' UNSWEETENED- CONDENSAD MILK. STERILIZED NATURAL MILK, MALTED MILE And· SWEETENED COCOA and MEK, cold at very reasonable prices. owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for lietailers.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Bolo Aganta for Buagkong and South Chlua Nos. 17 & 18. Connnöght Road Central, Hongkong. Telephona No. 1925 2030.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FRESH MILK.

The value of pure fresh milk sa perfect diet cannot be overestimated. Without fresh milk children cannot thrive.

The purity and quality of our milk is guaranteed.

Beware of 'adulterated and impurs milk.

THE CALL FOR ECONOMY

- AND

THE COST OF LIVING.

To those who realise the urgent necessity for greater economy and to those who are confronted with the great problem of the increased cost of living, we would suggest that one of the foremost factors in reducing expenses is the intelligent, and consistent cultivation of home Handon.

GRACA & 00,,

DELLERA IN VEGETABLE & FLOWER SEEDS. No. 30, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

ΤΟ

ORDER

CHERRY & 00.,

FEDDER STREET, Opposita Hongrong cal Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MUMEYA,

Japanese Photographers.

All kiddle of Photographic Work done In latest styles also Passport Photos. L

Developing and Printing for Amateurs à Speciality.

NG. BA, Queen's Road Central Tel. 254

THE KEW FRZHGH, REMEDY.

THERAPION NË THERAPION NË 2. THERAPION NË,3

1x ladder Catarra, zee blood"& Sein Dianaanza Ma, 3 for Phryne Weakness

QCA PATANGLAND.İN DI LEČERNEMIA CR

WALA SYLEJOINA CHEST RAK47 $,10000

SIN TRAND MARKRO WORD 'THSHATIAN SON ALL DUFTSLAN) ARPAKAI TU TENUINE PADKÉTS

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Embassy"

Virginia Cigarettes

Embassy

VIRGINIA CICARETTES

WDSHOWILLS

BRISTOLA

Finest Quality

The kind of quality that not only pleases the smoker but gratifies an ideal of the manufac-

turers to produce the finest of Virginia Cigarettes.

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

Soldin tins of 50 25 Cigarettes

also packets of 10's

This Advertisement is fasced by British-American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.

THE MERCANTILE MARINE.

BASS'S CHAIRMAN ON BEER QUESTION.

that a bankrupt country is a good place in which to buy, and when he fizcs that the mark-which, when A handsome contribution to the l

Colonel John Gretton, M.P., chair:puid to him, is calculated at id.-s Fryant Memorial Fund has been re- "ceived by the honorary secretary, mag of Bass, Rateliff, and Gretton, worth about a shilling in a German, Lieutenant T. W. Moore, R.N.E..preiling at the annual meeting at shop he is sufficiently the business in the shape of a remittance for Brixton and moving a resolution pro- man to seize the opportunity. There £1,000 contributed by Mears. Mue.viding for a dividend, making 16 per are many razors now going to Eng kenzie and Co., Ltd, Shanghai, and Dent. For the year, said that, in 1914 and that are there worth 156., but forwarded by them through the the taxation, including brewers were bought in German towns for medium of Captain L. D'Oliveyea. licence duty, was Bo.. per standard 20 marks, or the equivalent of De.

Hl. in English money. secretary of the China Coust Officers barel; to-day it was 70%. The cost

The 'same Gd. In their letter necompany.uf unterlube, coal, and wages had thing is happening with cameras and ing the gift, Mesere. Mackenzie Mayalumet trebled, and untaris and all optical glass. Some budding finan they are desirous of showing in otiver expertus bud increased heavily, feiens are speculating impossibilities material way their appreciation of it was evident that in the immedi- and propose collecting marks at the the fine work of the British Mercun future beer could not he sold at English value of Bjd. or 44, with a a price at all approaching the pre- tie Marine during the war.

view to keeping them until they way rate, although many restrictions

resume thair normal value in inter- Ind. een removed. There was un-cational exchange, when they will dumbelly a great deal of discoutent put the coins into Circulation again, thraigret the country at the reduc. and for each, seven shillings 0 Major Cusack, D.L., chairman of tion of gravity, which compelled spent on securing marks they will the Miland Great Western Railway many high-ole brewe to brew receive twenty, Co. of Irekuid, and Sie Waiter large quantities of very weak beer, Nugent, Burt, vice chaiman...have, which gave great diseatisfaction. on behalf of the company, signed The Control Board was universally memorial which has been sent to condemned, and any attempt to per varique public bodies und companies petuate it would be strongly opposed. in Ireland, to request Lord French, it was the most unpopular institu. the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. to tion the country had known. receive a representative Irish deputa. tion in support of Galway us a Two- atlantic "port.

GALWAY AS TRANS-ATLANTIC

PORT.

CO-RESPONDENT AS PROSECUTOR.

A FALL OF TROUSERS.

One wholesale firm at least is re- Jucing the price of serge trousers, and the Outfitter is right in claim- ing that "tremendous interest " will be felt in the fact, says a home paper. Many millions of us have to wear trousers and to pay for them.

The memorial has already received the support of the Dublin Chimbeci Henry William Green, 2 elec.What we used to pay, what we have of Commerce and the Dublin Cor-trical engineer, of 142, Fortess-road, poration, and some county assouie Kentish Town, attended at Maryle tione. Other signatures are awaited bone, with his head bandaged, to by the promoters of the memorial, prosecute- two brothers Frederick which, when compiled, is to be sub- j and Albert George, of Queen'e cre- mitted to Land French.

A VERSATILE ANGLO-AMERICAN.

Puente for sen ult. He said he We

to pay, and what we might have to pay have been very serious mattere for consideration. The climate for bids a general fushion of shorts, and woad is now out of the question. But when one firm makes a reduc-

co-respondent in divorce proceedings, tica in prices others will have to which Mr. Frederick George was follow, and those who have patiently taking against her wife. He was

won frayed and shiny trousers rather It is gathered from a friend in the walking down Dartmouth Park-hill he be fleeced in wool may have The queer coin- States that Mr. W. M. Brittain, the with Mrs. George and her child, their revenge.

cidence is that this news of a re- secretary of the Amerkan Steamship when the prisoner passed, using in- Association, as resiming therefromtulting remarks, and called Mrs.duction should follow so glosely the The older generation of the Cunan George names, Ose of them then Profiteering Act. That secuence of Company will probably remember struck himn in the face, blackening events leads to hopes which we Mr. Brittain, as he was formerly with he received two punches in the back sien likely to be exerted by the.Act |

his eye, and immediately afterwley entertained of the moral sua that, company before going to the Stuben, where he has made much In co-exumination by Mr. Ver. But there is no doubt that some co the solicitor defending, be adprosecutions and, we sincerely trust, history. He worked up the Steam-

lip Association into quite a big itted that in the bearing of Mr. some imprisonments will be needed thing, finding time, inoreover, to Frederick George be called Mra. to bring down prices in general, Pursue a broad course of study, ob- George Maudie dear, and, in views have proved their uselegenese. twining a Bachelor of Arts degree of the proceedings pending, he claim-Profiteeing a still a Incrative gauio.

But the fall of trousers is aa'oinen" froin the college of the City of Newed that he was justiñed

The Magistrate: It is not surpris- York, subsequently taking his mas ter's degree in the School of Poli ing that the husband should assault tical Science at Columbia Criver you if that is what you do,

The defence was that Green was sits, and an LL.B. in the New York the aggressor, and in the result the University Law School. During the war, Mr. Brittain conducted a course charge was dismissed, the magistrato of lectures for the School of Com marking that even a husband had merce of the New York University on

a right to defend himself. Merchant Marine Administration and Operation, while moreover he was appointed as b special agent on ship- ping representing the U8, Shipping Board at the Pesco Conference. Es served in an advisory capacity and

TOMMY IN GERMANY.

Although some of us have not yet done discussing whether we shall

E an authority at Paris. Mr. Brit trade with Germany again as usual, tein has made a rather thorough in the Army of the Rhino le finding it vestigation of the port facilities in profitable to establish business rela European countries, nod is generally tionships. The soldier may not be regarded as an able student of mari- fully enlightened In all the intrion timo affairy,

ciée of commerce, but he is realising

ART CRITICISM.

With Browning brows the famous. artist was transferring to canvas the beauteous Highland eene, before him, and furiously wishing that the spectator who was breathing, down. the back of his neck would go away. But that spectator was a sticker

"Man," he said presently, did ye never think tae try photy- graphy?**

**No, snapped the artist, as he went on painting.-

!' I wanner at that noel' said the spectator. It's a hantle quicker wall's bein" a sicht mair like the

place.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, · 1919.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansions.

Agests 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,

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO., LD.

HEAD OFFICE: NO. 47 sad 48, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tel No. 1399 ✯ 2930,

TRADE MARK-

We have now a large stock of fresh and superior Macaron, Paste Stars Egg-noodles, Vermicelli and all kinds of Soup stuffs, all produced from Flour of Best Quality, sold at very resumable prices.

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

Terms moderate, especially for Agencies. Orders axeented promptly.

Inspection and Enquiries are cordially solicited

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING —

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL

(To be opened 1st January, 1920.)

J. E. TAGGART,

MANAGER.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

DENTRAL LOCATION

LI ELECTRIC TRAMS Fau Entrance, Electric Lifts, Faan and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Tithings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service.

Telephone 372. Telegraphic Address:——" VICTORIA,"

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout sad entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Ear and Billiard Rooms. Terma moderate. "Sponlal terms to familias an application to

Telephone E. 3. Telegraphle Add: "PALACE"

CARLTON

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

HOTEL.

(HS ONLY AMERICAN KOTEL IN TIER DOLAMY.)

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 Bates on application to the Propriotrem. Launches meet Passenger Bosta

Telegraphle Address "CARLTON,”

Mez, F. E. CAMERON.

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

(OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT.).

- Noted for:

THE BEST TIFFINS AND DINNERS: FILLET HADDOOKS.

ICES AND ICED DRINKS,

CAKES, AND PASTRIES.

Dinner and Picnic Parties catered for:

A European Café under European Supervision.

Tel. 909.

BLUE BIRD

100 ORNAM PARLOUR

AND CONFECTIONERS

TANGSTUE,- Dazzur,

-the Laby BIEN TING, —ÍA VAGUILAR STREET, TERMS VERY MOPHRÁTE

"Conanitation tree.

Tel. 909.

CHOCOLATES

Plain Best Voda Chocolate Home-de sorted Chreciabee peri -Hombey's' Noetta's sat Horde Callforafatar" Chocolater Marion Choclat per the 00008 Coote per † ↳ Chirardelli, freakfari Coco"

Kita, per 1

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