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IC. P. LAMMERT.

T:A

AUCTIONEER APPRAISER.

AND. SCRVEYOR

-Public Auctions-

JHE Undersigned has received instruc

1 done to sell by Public Auction.

DA

FRIDAY, November 14, 1918, commencing, at 11 M.

A No. 95. Godown, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.. Lt.Kowloon..

Drum Caustic Soda

(Stored in No. 91 Godown.

Is Drams Caustic Sods

(Stored in No. 10 Godown.)

16 Cases Bicarbonate of Boda.

(Stored in: No 31 Godown.)

(Stored in No. 3e Godowa.)

2 Casco Sulphuric Acid

Cases Aluminium Sulphate

(Stored in No. 25 Godan.)

41 Chaco Alominium Sulphate

(Stored in No. 28 Godox.)

91 Cases Aluminium Sulphate

(Stored in No. 1 Godown.)

(Stored in No. 26 Godown.)

29. Bags Taloum Powder

* Bags Talcum Powder

(Stored in No. 3: Godown.)

Stored in No. C Godown.)

(Stored in No. 51 Godown.)

(Stored iä No. 25. Godown.) Terms --Cash on delivery...

58. Cases Naphthaline

50 Cases Chrome Alum

16 Cases Bisalphoto of Soda

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

OW

WEDNESDAY, November 19,

1919.

AT NOON,

at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

The Wreck of the S.S.

• TAIWAN MARU,"

with all her gear appurtenances as she now lies stranded in the Haisau Seraita, Terms Cash on isil of Hammer, when vessel will be at purchaser's 'Risk.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, November 19, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG HOTEL.

TEA

EA DANCES will be held on the following DAYS during the month of November, from 4.30 to 7 F.J.-

TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), 14TH. MONDAY, 17TH FRIDAY, 1ST. MONDAY, 24TH, THURSDAY, 2750,

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

sta

complete the work in connection with the above Hotel at the earliest possible date without interruption, and in order to avoid all possibility of dam- ago to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Wark, The public are requested to kindly abstain from visiting the Hotel at on and from this date until its completion and formal opening on bích due Netice will be given by. advertisement in the local newspapers.

The Management of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely upon the ready o-operation of the public in the fore- guing regard.

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919.

Jor the HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

PROPRIETORS OF THE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

J. H. TAGGART;-

* Manager."

NOTICE.

MB W. P. SIMPSON, late of Messrs. Maddox Street, London, W.1., has This Day joined our Firma Cutter.

MSIMPSON & SONS, Taitors, 22

DISS,BROS,

TAILORS. Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong November 8, 1919-

6

NOTICE

R

LL PERSONS with the exception of persons of Chinese race, wishing leave the Colony must have in their Demensiona VALID PASSPORT. Fengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony,

All persons, with certain exceptons," the remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Begister – themselves ander the REGISTRATION of PERSONE ORDINANCIR: 182€. Forms of Registration givinit. the parti bulars required may be obtained at the O.F,O. and at all Folice Stations.

The Penalty for non compilenos is a Ano noi exceeding $50. ́*

ED. O, WOLFE,

Captain Superintendent of Police: Kangkong, September 22, 1919

INTIMATIONS METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire] and for Sale

at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500.

85. Des Vox Boad

Central

* *

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA, a large shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSRL "MILK, STERILIZED. NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED COCOA -land- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present. high rata of, Exchange, especially for Retailers.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sola Axenta for Rougkoaz and' Booth Chlam Nu, Connaught Road Contral. Eongkong. Telephons Son, 1959 à 2230.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Received direct from the NORTHERN SCOTTISH

FISHERIES .selected

FILLET HADDOCK

AND KIPPERS.

WE HAVE

Great Varieties of used and unused

POSTAGE STAMPS Single Bete, Packets, Bags, and on Approval Books FOR COLLECTORS

·GRACA & CO.,

DEALIESIN AM POSTAGE STAMPS, POST Casta, Szzna, Tora, &c., &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

*

------TO

THE CHINA MAIL.

GARRICK

HOTAW KO

Selected Virginia Cigarettes

CIGARETTE

LAMBERT & BUTLER ENGLAND

boen

A 150 B

MENE TAKT *** 2PAN KITA KAI

vjet med seglada ta

A High-Grade Cigarette,

scientifically blended,

meeting all requirements

of the most critical

smoker.

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Jüskil edi ja mu suqu ber

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co.,. (China) Lud.

THE TERRIBLE PRO-- SPERITY OF THE

LIQUOR TRADE.

WHY ITS INFLATED VALUES MUST NOT BE USED AS A BASIS FOR STATE PURCHASE SOME REVEALING FIGURES OF PROFITABLE WATER

not

THE AUDACITY OF THE IDEA. to see what was happening. The good fortune was too great to be

"The audacity of the idea will be revealed in its naked characters. For appreciated by the unfortunate rail example, Ind. Coope made £262,953, way shareholders. They, too, have but the actual sum distributed was come under the control of the State only £20,671. In some cases huge during the war, and their property profits went to reserve in others may claim to have had at least, as new shares were created out of important a bearing upon the issue Ieserve. and 30 the dividend of the war as the very thin beverage was kept at a figure that would which Mr. Bung has retailed with shock the public. Here such profit. But so far from sharing is a newspaper extract, January 22, in his enormous good fortune the 1918

railway shareholders have seen their **Mitchell and Butlers, the Bir-property reduced to something like mingham brewers, to-day decided to insolvency and their share values fall make a further distribution of nearly to 25 per cent. and more below the £500,000 undivided profits in the form pre-war figures. They have had ho of additional share capital to existing windfall, and they know that they holders: About £300,000 was so will be lucky to get out on a pre-war capitalised, and the chairman, Mr. basis. Waters Butler, said there had been evidence of an increasing tendency to State control and ultimately to purchase after the war The State should, therefore, have some indica- Here is a table giving a comparition of the capital values with which son of the liquor consumed and the it was dealing.. money paid in these two years," he

A remarkable article in the Daily News by "A.G.G." shows the terrible prosperity which has come to the Drink Trade gwing to the war, and the danger that the inflated value of its stock will be used to rob the public if and when State Purchase comes about.

Mr. Gardiner takes the tell-tale figures for the year before the war, 1913, and compares them with the figures for 1917

says.--

Consumption

Drink Bill

...

TELL-TALE SHARE PRICES,

THE ONLY PRICE £350 MILLIONS.

"The course is plain enough.... It is to take over the Trade on the 1914 scale of valoes. That basis was laid down by the Government Committee, presided over by Mr. Herbert Samuel in 1915. It was a Committee which represented author- Beautifully simple, is'nt it? Butitatively every interest concerned. in barrels.

there is one place where the truthIt incided the Governor of the will out, no matter what ingenuities Bank of England; Sir Harmood Ban- 1913. 92,000,000 ... 166,700,000

are, employed. It is in the market ner representing the Trade, Mr. 1917 37,000,000 259,000,000 prices of the shares. Here is a Snowden, Sir Thomas Whittaker, and That is to say, in 1917, for rather ifttle table of the price of shares other responsible authorities. It more than one-third of the comm which will throw a food of light on arrived at a nattimous decision as dity sold, the trade pocketed nearly the facts:

to the price of purchase-viz-, -350 £100,000,000 more than it received

1915.

15. 1917. 1919. million poundsel, doodl .༣. in 1913. Its trade was cut down by

2 252 86

The inflation of the war bas pro- nearly two-thirds, and its receipts City of London..... 124 -91.

185

bably doubled the figure, but that The went up by more than a third. The Guinness... 2134 3072 3911 inflation must be ignored. explanation is simple enough. As it wamey 10 85 169 Trade, has grown fabulously rich by

ORDER

OFERRY. & 007

FEDDER ETEK 2, Opposite, Hongkong Hotel, Telephone No. 491

Hongkong March 20, 1914.

Japanese Photograpliers.

Allsopp's

price:The consumer paid more and that anyone who invested £2,000 In, cannot be allowed to crown, its more the less beat and the

1.2.

it became...

PROPITS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. "The result was what might be expected in such circumstances. The profits of the breweries went up by leaps and bounds. In the Economist of March 1 there was a comparison of the profits of the leading firms in 1915-16 and the two following years. Here are a few typical cases.

1915-16. 1917-18.

Arnold Perrett... Bass 199 Ind, Coope................ Allsopp's............

£

say, Allsopp's, even as late as 1915 long after the war had commenced now holds shares to the value of £86,000, a set gain of £84,000. Even in this golden age of the profiteer, this is a record that will not be easily surpassed.

achievements by selling watered stock to the State."

***

NO WATERED STOCK. The protection of the public can- not be looked for from the present Parliament, which is thronged with the vested interests, the exploitera, and the profiteers. But Labour Eas WHEN PURCHASE COMES.

fortunately taken over the brief for "But it is not in connection with the public. It is organising a great the subject of profiteering that the campaign throughout the Country marter la most important at this for the public ownership and contiof! thne, The war is over, the war of the Trade: It has declared för £

40,576 conditions are passing away hours the 1915, valuation as the maximum 14,427 295,628 437,320 are being extended, the manufacture figure, and it will fight the battle out

of beer is being increased, the Trade on that line. 2,484 262,953 36,811 181,062 is returning to its normal freedom in "It will have the whole weight of MUMEY A Threlfalle 80,885 239,636 ossession of the wealth created by public opinion with it in this last Watney, Combe.. 206,009 472,97 mito new claims struggle with Mr Bungl fi

fteen firms founded on its astonishing or near S the case the profits in two years had perity.Are those claims to be con risen, after the payment of solidated into: à, permanent veated debenture interest, and all interest at the expense of the com munity? That, as the speech I have administrative expenses, from £2,5914 060 to £4,164,048, an aggregate in quoted indicates, is what is in the crease of over a million and a half mind of the Trade It knows that WHEN you have a bed cold you want the reaction will cote, that the

a remedy that will not only give Dividends bounded up Joyfully! Perretta, who had paid nothing in influence of the great movement in relief, but effect's prompt and pormaG 1914, paid 334 per cent, in 1917-19. America will touch these shores ent cura, & remedy test is pleasant to Threlfall went from 9 to 30 demand that this formidable power injurious Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sooner or later, bringing with it a take, a remedy that contains nothing Whitbread's, from 2 to 7. Ind and shall be effectually controlled And Nature's plan, relieved the lungs, ide meets all these requitemanik" Itacts of Coppe from nil to 72 and so on in preparation for the challenge the expectorations opens the secretions and 15:117/GIVING CAPITAL AWAY AS 123 Trade, not content with the vast restores the arytem to a healthy pandi.

-NIMOY DIVIDENDS. M windfall of the war, is preparing to tion This comedy has world wide sa "But we must not look to divid convert that windfall into a basis of and use, and 500 diwiya kodisponded ponu/Voralp by all Chamisia and ends or even to the declared profits purchase.

All kinds of Photographic Work done

in latest styles siso Fassport Photos

W

Developing and Printing for Amateurs & Speciality,

No. Ba, Queen's Bond Central. Tel 154.

KEHR 'NEW FRENCH AMMEDY,

THERAPION NË1 HERAPION NË 2 ERAPION NG3

Chennai 143 205 channels Wankz ADENO

BERTRADE MARKED WOLT

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In

CHAMBERLAIN'S conen REMEDY, Päruter

THỤESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1919.

NOTICES pogrejen

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

140

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

“Hotel ̃Mansio

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.

Exao Oprice" d'à 48, Canhnught Road Central, HongKong, "Tel No. 2530 BELACH OFFICE: 430 & 431, Nanking Road, Shanghai, Chica..

are 1!

A REDUCTION OF 20%

is allowed on the retailed prices of all our VERMICELLI, PASTE STARS, MADÁRONI, EGO-, 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 20 days from the

25th inst., to the 14th November."

HOTELS AND “CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

5 12 11 pa

670

OPERATING —

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REFULSE BAY HOTEL,

(To be opened 1st January, 1920.)

J. H. 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

T

CENTRAL LOCATIONSÍŞU A

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pan-Entrance, Electrio Lifta, Fans and Lightfog A Buropean Bath and Banitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout.. Best of Food and Serviesi, mi

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Telephone 378. Telegraphic Address :- VieruKIA.

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

**KOWLOON="

Two minutes from Star Ferry),

Recently renovated and refiralshed, electda. light and fans throughout and entirely uvler new mangement. Onfsins under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Terma modemta.—Spacial farma te families of application to

Talations

Talexrphic Addr: Patac

.......

J. H. OXERREY, Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL.

(muz öne ZätözikOTEL IN THE ÜLŐKT.) JOE HOUSE STREET

Under American Management: 'Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District, 43 Bedrooms, Rxcellent Cuisine. scrupulously clean. Moderate Teras. Monthly and Family Baton on application to the Proprietzak Launches meat Prasanger Bosta

Telegraphic Addrom "CARLTON

HI F. E. CAMRBON,

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

SEN TILL MIDNIGHT)“.

(OPEN

Noted for: 22 8 38 22 320

THE BEST TIFFINS AND DINNERS. FILLET HADDOCKS.

ICES AND 10ED DRINKS,

CAKES AND PASTRIES,

Dinner and Picnic Parmes catered for:

A European Café under European Supervision. Tel. 909

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THERME VERT MODERATE Commibution from,

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CHOCOLATES

Fizia Swiet Vanila. Chandiskam

100% Home-Madajkamorted Chodilih

1.40 Th

California * 80er ** Conenlaise Amerima ChocoČLENU JUHU PRE 15

Emperial Cocon.... 1.10 mtr pot §

FRENCH LESSONS!

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