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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

-Public Auctions-

SHE' Undersigned has received. instruc

Mons to sell by Public Auction,

THURSDAY, November 13,

1919.

commencing at 11 am.

at his Sales Rooms Duddell Street,

▲ Collection of Valuable

Jewellery

comprising :-

Rings, Bracelets, Bangles, Earrings, Brooches, Pins, Cuff Links Studs, ste

etc

(Plain and set with precious stones) Also

A Selection of Gold Watches,

X. B. The boys will be found

suitable for Christmas presents,

Terms: Cash on delivery. Ökte lopuna mill-be issued.,

Ou view from Wednesday, the 12th. izst,

GEO, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

on

FRIDAY, November 14, 1919,

commencing at11 4.

At No. 25 Godown.. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Lt., Kowloon.

1 Drum Caustic Soda

"(Stored in No. 21 Godowa.

18 Deums Caustic Soda

(Stored in No. 19 Godown.)

13 Cases Bicarbonate of Soda

(Stored in No 21 Godown.)

2 Cases Sulphuric Acid

Stored in No. 26 Godown.)

Cases Aluminium Sulphate

(Stored in No. 25. Godown.).

41 Cases Aluminium Sulphate

..29 Bags Talcum Powder.

(Stored in No. 28 Godown.) #Cases Aluminium Sulphate

(Stored in No. 1 Godown.)

(Stored in No. 28 Godown.)

(Stored in No. 3 Godowa)

(Stored in No. C' Godown.)

(Stored in No. 51 Godown)

(Stored in No. 25 Godown.) Terms: Cash on delivery.

40 Baga Talcum Powder

35 Cases Naphthahine

50 Cases Chrome Alum

26 Cases Bisalphate of Soda

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Anotioneer. Hongkong, November 7, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG HOTEL

TEA

TEA DANCES will be held on the following DAYS daring the month of November, from 4.30 to 7 IM-

FRIDAY, 14TH. MONDAY, 17TH. FRICAY, 21ST. MONDAY, RATH, THURSDAY, 57TH

Admission to Dance Room each Day $2 per head, including TEA.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

NOTICE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

IN Order to enable the Contractors to

complete the work in connection with the above Hotel at the carliest possible date without interruption, and in order to avoid all possibility of dan- age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, .etc. The public are requested to

indly abstain from visiting the Hotel | ss on and from this date until ita complation and formal opening on bich due Notice will be given by advertisement in the local newspapers.

The Management of the Hotel feel anre that they may rely upon the ready so-operation, of the public in the fore- going regard

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919

For the HONGKONG-HOTEL-CO., LTD. PROPRIETORS OF THE

REPULNE BAT HOTEL J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.--

G.

*NOTICE."

LL PERSONS with the exception A of persons of Chinese race, wishing to leave the Colony must have in their possession VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of presports will not be allowed to loaya thaalony." All persons, with certain exceptions, who remain in the Colony, fór, more ában 7 days are required to: Beginter. themselves anilor he REGISTRATION o PERSONS ORDINANCE 1810. Forms of Registration giving the perti- pular required, may be obtained at the] G.P.O. nod at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non complianos ia's dino dos exceeding $59.

-ED. O, WOLFE, Captain Buperintendent of Polico Bokong, September 22, 1915.

INTIMATIONS

METEOR GARAGE

Bole distributors, of

MAXWELL CARS

Antonubiles-for-Hire

and for Sale

at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500.

86 Des Vœux ·Road

一代二

Central

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA a large shipmont of LACTOGEN, UNIWEEZEN ED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED HATURAL MINE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED. COCOA-and- MILE, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, aspecially for Retailers,

ACTO

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Yote Agents for Hongkong and 'Soeta China Nas, 17 & 05, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Telephone No. 1930 £ 5050..

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Received direct from the NORTHERN SCUTTISE

FISHERIES selected

FILLET HADDOCK

AND KIPPERS.

WE HAVE

Great Varieties of used

and unused

POSTAGE STAMPS Single, Beta, Fackets, Bags, and on Approval Books FOR COLLECTORS

GRACA & CO% DEALERS IN

POSTAGE STANTS, FOST CLET, SZEDE Toys, &c., 40. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS

Magy

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO........

ORDER

OHERRY & 00..--

FEDDER-STREET--- Opporbe Hongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 491,

Hongkong, Masak 20, 1914.

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographers.

All kinds of Photographic Work done in latest styles also Passport Photos.

Developing and Printing for

Amateur's Epecial

à No. Ba, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 254

(PHIL NEW. FRENCH RESSENT.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

GARRICK

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This Advertisment is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd.

NEWS FROM HOME,

PARALYSIS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, Sept. 30. At last we are in the vorter of industrial strife. The railway men's leaders have been stampeded into a national strike, with the result that stagnation has fallen upon commerce and industry, we are again on war rations, and the feeding of the families depends entirely upon road and seaborne traffic, plus as much as individuals can carry for them selves. All because the hot heads would not wait for the matter to be negotiated that is the adjustment of a standard wage for all the rail- way workers for another three months, when it could be done in accordance with the rise or fall of the cost of living.

The main facts will have been told you by cable. But it may not be amiss to give you some details of a

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and exports. They negotiated with a Mr. Charles Knott, a man with some, International notoriety as an exhibition propagandist and now connected with the British' Chamber, of Commerce in Cologne, to get this clearing house established, with "an Englishman in control of it,

with this discontent has come a distaste for work and a ca', canny policy that has limited output in every direction, despite assurances by labour leaders that if an eight hour day, were granted we should have more: work and not less. So experienced business men, and many other competent observers are look-

On paper the thing looked very ing at this upheaval with consider pretty, but old hands in Germany able philosophy, saying "It is inevitpromptly pointed out the trick that able. Let us therefore have the fight among us until sanity is restored and we can all "get on with the job”.

1914.

blast through Reuters from Cologne, Charles Knott sent out a trumpet and I expect you have had a sum mary of it cabled to you. But maybe the rest of the story has not reached,

Germany would inerely send us what, she did not want, would get much needed goods and raw materials. In Two days before the strike began return, and would meanwhile bridge heard a most admirable and weighty the chasm that exists between her and speech from Lord Weir, whose ser the British market against the time vices to the Empire as Air Minister; when she is in a position to shoot cannot be too highly valued.

He her surplus products on to us. urged masters and men to get toget spoke of the industrial situation and ber and face the facts; one with the other, in a plain discussion across a table in their own works. He also chastised the Government for their shuffling policy and demanded you. He followed the trumpet, blast. a clear lead. It was a speech by a and the London Chamber of Com

in person, though the Board of Trade. great employer and its frank admis merce had nothing to say for him. son of the justice of many of the He was unfortimate on the first even.. labour demands showed how far we ing, for a newspaper man came had moved in late years and how across him as he was engaged at a much, better were the omens for a meeting to develop the trade of ex cross table conference-between más- porting horseflesh from England to supplementary character. There are ters and men. Perhaps this reason the Cortinent and put some plais able attitude was one of the things questions to him as to his authorisa two railway unions in the country, the one tan by Mr. J. Bromley and most feared by the red party" tion. These he evaded or so answered the other by Mr. J. H. Thomas M.P., among the trade unionists, who see as to give himself subsequent dif If is common knowledge that Mr. milleniums in bolshevisms regardless ficulties. He said he was a con Thomas has been forced to declare of the sorry spectacle of Russia Afidential agent from the German this strike or his enemies would have any rate we are in the unrest up to Government and that the German ousted him from his position as being our necka and once more Old England wanted the British peopls to under- too moderate for these "progressive faces a crisis no less serious, than in stand that they did not wish to dump days. Bromley, on the other hand,

German goods in England. The fact has long been in favour of having a

There is no gainsaying its gravity, of course, that they, cannot dump- tilt with the Government. In the have seen an infinite variety of the now, so the profession of faith end it comes to this-Parliamentary documentary evidence of foreiga is valueless, Government must be floute in order markets slipping away because while

Then be denied that he had ever that trade union rule may be sub- we are reconstructing" America been in business in England. This stitued. Defeated at the recent Trade and Japan are already seiling accord statement was publiked by the Daily Union Congress the advocation of ing to local needs. Our hope is that ff the ballot box have nevertheless awhile we shall get on with the job details to disprove his assertion that, direct action as opposed to the rule when we have hit each others heads Mail and all the next two days readers of that paper were supplying been powerful enough to bring the in greater cordiality, as has happened he had never been in London before, whole nation to this crisis by seizing sometimes in our history before. They supplied material enough to the railway workers as their tools. Then, it is to be hoped, the workers provide a severe catechism. for Mr. and victims. Yet it is already

will realise all the leeway we have to Knott, so the newspaper man went clear that the first to suffer by this make up and will deliver a day's out to keep an appointment he had made. precipitate action will be the railwaypur for a day's pay. If that be so with him. Mr. Knott did not keep men themselves, for even if they and the manufacturers study calit, so the Daily Mail published some force up their wages a little for some needs in foreign markets we shall details of ids record. The next mor- of their grades, the whole of them recover our markets and extend stillning Mr. Knott caught the earliest will be subject to a corresponding further, for quality is still on our side. boat train for the Continent. I do increase in the cost of living, and so

GERMAN TRICKS.

not think we shall hear much more The Hum is at his tricks, to get of him or his clearing house plan into our markets by the back door | #gainwiend's WON I need not dwell on the immediate and by guile. He is bending what reqult to commerce and industry, ever he cannot use himself which beyond pointing to this altuation dat present is not much-to England accounting for any delays merchants | diaguised as Dutch or Swiss manu- in China may be experiencing in obfactures, plus a little negligible staff, taining deliveries from this side. But auch an whetstones, intglass and I would add the that this atmos-rabbit skins, sent openly. But when phere has long been gathering and, commercial travellers tried to sell with mach artificial prosperity around cheap German jewellery the other as a result of bighly poid (war frork day they found retailers would not and out of work doles a spirit of do business with them on any terms discontent has grown up in the Not are the leather men any more belief that the Exchequer stocking" is eager,STADURA

the wheel will go round in a vicious circle.

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7.

limitless and the workers are entitled So they revived an idea they have

get their

down into had ha mind for years a clearing

to

it, up to the shoulder. 23 Along house in Berlin to license all import

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DEAFNESS

"And¬Xqiars: INTER HEAD,

sores of apparently kepala cam have been complete!onrad by the well known Wrench Orlane. NorUINA". EQUALS THIS WIMPLE

Co., Station Hd, Croydon, Eng:

Coride, en It Can be obtained-diaset from “

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11,3UISINE S

NOTICES.

G FALCONER & CO. LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions:

Agents 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":"17-&-42, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tel. No. 1330. BRANCH OFFICE: 430 & 431, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China.

TRADE

A REDUCTION OF 20%

is "allowed on the retailed prices of all our VERMICELLI, PASTE STARS, MACARONI, EGG- NOODLES, and all other kinds of Soup Stuff, in respect of the OPENING CEREMONY OF OUR NEW FACTORY AT CAUSEWAY BAY, HONGKONG,“ on the 25th OCTOBER for 90 days from the 93th fast to the 14th November..

-HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING (

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

(To be opened. Let January 1920.)

J. E TABDART,

MAXIO

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. A

À LL ELECTRIC THAMS Paul Entrance, Héctric Lifts, Fan and Lighting A European Baths and Saaftary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service

Talephone 373. Telegraphie Addreći z2 Vicrosta.k!

J. WITCHELL, Monag

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOK

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).'

Recently renovated and refcrnished, alectric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cuiains under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Terms, moderate Special terms: so families on application to

J. E. OXBERBY, Papeter

Telephone K. X-Telegraphio Add, : "PALIOR"

CARLTON HOTEL.

(THE ONLY AMERICAN (MOZEL IN TIES COEDİT.)

ICE HOUSE STREET,

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