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C. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG HOTEL.

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR 1919.

DINNE

INNER DANCES will be held on the following nights during

CHRISTMAS WEEK –

CHRISTMAS EVE,

Wednesday, 24th December..

CHRISTMAS NIGHT,

Thursday, 25th December.

BOXING NIGHT.

Friday, 26th December,

AND

NEW YEAR'S EVE,

Wadazaday, 31st December. The popular entertainers. Tha Missas AILEEN and DORIS WOODS, will appear in the above CERISTMAS DANCES.

Special Tables Hote Hepns will be pruled in the GRILL ROOM : 83.50 per bral, and in the MAIN DINING 200M at $2.50 per head.

Patrons are vist to book early as accommodation is limited. All tables previonaly ongagal and not cancelled by mid-day on the day to which euch reservation applies will be charged for, whether occupied or not.

Bockings may be made at the HOTEL MAIN OFFICE.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager..

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

A BALL will be held on the Even-

ing of the 1st of January, 1920,

megang at 9.15 P..

Tickets including buffet supper can.

INTIMATIONS

Nickalplated & White Ware

BATHROOM FIXTURES New Stock Just Unpacked.

C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.,

30 & 32, Da Vores BOLD, C

I

JUST RECEIVED from AUSTRALIA a large, shipment of LAUTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSAD, MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED COCOA -Jand- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the prosent high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.

be cb.sined at the Hongkong Hotel SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Main Office at $3.-per head.

Dinners will not be nerved at the Repulse Bay Hotel on the opening) night.

JH. TAGGART,

Manager,

Hongkong, December 23, 1:19.

NOTICE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

¡N Order to enable the Centretora to

complete the work in connection With the ahova Hotel at the earliest opomble date without interruption, and FD order to avoid all possibility of dam- age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, atc. The public are requested to Kindly shat sin from visiting the Hotel

on and from this date until ita omplation and formal opening on which dus Notise will be given by vertisement in the local newspapers. The Management of the Hotel foal, gure that they may rely upon the ready || 40-operation. Al the public in the fore- "going regard

Dated this Sixth day of November, $1919.

For the HONGKONG HOTEL Co., LTD.

PROPRIETORS OF THE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager..

NOTICE.

NO ALL WHOW it may concern I CLAYE at

TSAMUEL JOHN

prascal resiling at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong, hereby give Notice that I ¿have expressly withdrawn all and every

tbority which my wife GLADYS WIRELENE CLAYE may bare at any time, Bither expressly or by implication otherwise acquired to contract for frame or in my game or na my agent or in say way to pleige my credit having expressly forbidden her eo to do and.

e being sufficiently supplied with all comaries and that I will not be esponsible for her debts when ever or howsoever.incurred:

Hole Agents for Hongkong and Senta China or, 1743. Connaught Road Central, Bongkang, Telephone Nos. 1799 & 1290,-

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

for

CHRISTMAS ORDER

HAMS, TURKEYS, GEESE DUCKS, POULTRY SAUSAGE MEAT,

&c. &c. &c. & should be sent in as early as possible TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

Stockings,

XMAS BASKETS, ZAO-ZAW PUZZLES, STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS, DOLLS | DOLLS ! | DOLLS !!T

Рістрах Воска,

FISH POND, QUOIT GAME, ERECTOR, LUDO,

&C.,

&c.

GRACA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Ecogkong-

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JAPANESE - MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

Dated this 17th day of December,CHERRY & CO. 1910.

9. J. CLATE;

OUR GOOD TEACHER..

•

ELU CHE PO, an experienced 1 teacher, who has been teaching jazibe Dicoman, BOYS' SCHOOL for s Comelód„of nearly 15 years, has Dow". resigned his pst, with the intention of going in the tamercial world. During the time, when Mr. Li was at School, he bad done very good work for School Numerous boys, who had been taught by him, received macb kindness and ere from him in their studion. N. v, Mr. Luis going to Mfanysis on January lat. We are very kberry to lose him. We can hardly find Fémeans to express our ibinahfi Incen tá Chim, but the only thing we can do for bim, in publish a few words to abo pur deepest gratitude, and wish him every success in his future career, The From Tại Boys or, DiocesaX SOHCOL. Hongkong, December 23, 1918.

HILDER STREZI, Hongrong. Howel. Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, Mason 20, 1914,

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TERRIBLE FIRE IN SHANGHAI

BIG COTTON 'MILL DESTROYED."

The N.C. Daily News of Dec. 16 gives the following account of the fire reported in our special telegrams:

Exactly to what extent life was lost in the big fire which occurred yester day morning in Chapei, when a cotton mill was burned down and a flour mill seriously endangered, is not a present ascertaicable, and, indeed may never be, but it la commonly reported that a large number of people were killed, the estimates varying from 15 to 50. It is only 'fair to the management of the cotton mill to state

-BOUQUET

Actual Size..

STRANGE STORY OF CHANNEL

GÁLE.

A correspondent of Chronicle Writing from Ramsgate the Daily

says...

lar regard to godown!"G" the con- LIFEBOAT UNFIT FOR SEA. tents of which were reported as being worth two lakhs. In the meantime. the Central Division had crossed the creek and had laid on 2.000ft." "of hose from Chapei hydrant, and, though the pressure obtained was none too good. were able to work right to the top of the flour mill and prevent the fire obtaining a hold there. The Settlement Brigade were working under considerable disadvanrage, and the Chapui Brigade were even worse handicapped for they had no engines to augment the pressure from the mains, but the brigades as the result of very strenuous work eventually confined the fire.

DANGEROUS WORK.

take part in the attempts to rescue the Failure of the Ramsgate lifeboat ro crews of the three vessels which were blown on to the Goodwin sands dur ing the great Channel gale has caused some comment here.

Members of the lifeboat crew tell

me that when the first of the vessels went ashore, and distress signals shown by the East Goodwin lightship and the Gull lightship were seen from the harbour, just after 10 o'clock on Saturday night, the full crew at once assembled and manned their boat.

The scene at the height of the fire that they deny any less of life and was wonderful but awesome and the is thought that whatever happens. there can never be any actual proof danger great as heavy machinery as to the number of casualties, if any.

came crashing through the floors

Before they could get away Captain. The Are is reported to have broken weakened by the fire.. Flames were

forced out through the bottom win-F Symonds, local secretary of the our shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday; dows by the pressure set up by the National Lifeboat Institution and har it is alleged that a short circuit occur red while the mill was running and falling machinery and quite a number bour master at Ramsgate, appeared on started the fire, which spread rapidly

of men were scorched." Flaming cot- the scene atid stopped, departure, on amongst the loose cotton, and, it is

con was being blown about by the the ground tha: the boar was not fit said, trapped 15 men at least in the

breeze while a perfect shower of for sea, in consequence of damage room in which it started. It is alleged Sparks was falling upon the adjacent done to it during the rescue of the that these men have been killed. The buildings. Assistance was also given Crew of the Danish schooner Svenin. fire was noticed from the Sinza Watch by the fire Boat, the Fire King, which Tower at 2.37 a.m. in the direction was placed on the Chapei side of the of Ichang and Gordon Roads and the increased the effectiveness of the jets creek and by pumping considerably Quickly

The Brigade was faced with an afterwards the Central Watch Tower almost superhuman task and until the see men clinging to the rigging of also reported the glare, and practically arrival of the fire Boat were putting two of the boots on the Goodwin

Sinza Division turned out.

simultaneously with the Sinza Division

a section of Central also made off for what was a gradually losing fight,

serious dimensions.

A HAZARDOUS SPOT.

In the hope that the decision would be, revoked, the men stayed in their

and with the naked eye they could boat in the harbour all night. They were still there when daylight came,

Sands.

Some of the' lebommen were then

the fire which was then seen to be of bat with the assistance of the Fire in favour of putting out, despite the King they were able eventually to surround the fire and a check in every definite, order not to do so, but were On arrival at the junction of Mark-direction was effected on a conflagra they did their names woud be struck restrained by the intimation that if hem and Gordon Roads it was found tion which was one of the most seri-off the official roll of the institution

ous. and most difficult that the Brigade: that the fire was a bad one and was have had to deal with for some con- located in one of the* most hazardous.

blocks of buildings known locally,siderable time past.

The

CAPTAIN SYMONDS'S STATEMENT. Further conversation revealed that, three days after the damage to the representative of the institution, and boat, the craft was surveyed by a on his opinion Captain Symonds based his decision that she was not fit fo venture out of the harbour

said Captain Symonds, and were

The men were brave enough, quite willing to go out, but they would have been risking their lives to do so. The gunwa'c was badly damaged and

across the Soochow Creek in Chapei. ESTIMATED DAMAGE TLS. 300,000, It involved the Pac Foong Cotton Mill In the result seven of the buildings and the Yue Foon Flour Mill together were completely gutted with the ex with other buildings covering an area ception of the main boiler room which spproximately 750ft. by 350k. A had been protected from the begin large two-storeyed spinning section, ring, though the roof was burned off. known as section "D" was a mass The press packing shed was also gut of Hames from top to bottom, with theted, while three one-storeyed sheds, Hoors and lightly built roof already workshops and two godowns were falling in. The flames had jumped saved practically undamaged. across the intervening spaces and had four mill and buildings were also there were holes in our tanks. attacked A, B and C," the saved no were also two hongs and a weaving shed, scunching room and a number of other buildings in the com- National Litebet Institution Inspec Captain Symonds added that, the additional weaving shed respectively pounded Helped by a stiff north-easterly breeze Various estimates are given of the Instructed me," he said, that the tor visited Ramsgate on Friday, "He the fire was spreading with such rapid damage and it is generally reckoned tile boat was not it to go to scs on ity that it had practically reached the that is. 500,000 worth of property account of the damage sustained, and end of the sheds adjacent to the flour was destroyed, the greater part of.1.therefore ordered the coxswain not mill and gedowns and with the excep- which was not covered by insurance, to leave the harbour on Saturday tion of these the conflagration had The Brigade have to be congratulated involved practically the whole of the on a remarkably fine piece of work, for without their efforts the flames

heart of the block

Sinze Division Fari a lino across would have been spread by the wind the creek and a jet was taken over and damage would have been done to the boundary wall to protect a go- a very much greater extent.. down, the windows of which had just been caught, another was run round to the cast side to cut off the fire in

at direction, while other men were" engaged around the fire generally using the mill hydrants, with particu

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OKOEMBER 24, 1919.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansións.

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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TRADE MARK.

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING!—

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

(To be opened 1st January, 1920.)-

MAHANEL,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

16 Minutes-from-Landing Stage. Under the Management of

MT

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KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATIONS.

ALL ELECTRIU TEAMS Fase Entrance, Electrie Lifts, Fans and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Systecz throughout. Best of Food and Service.

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J. WITCHELL, Manager',

PALACE HOTEL

KOWEDON.

(Two minater fraza Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout sad entirely under new management Cuisine under the personal expervision of the proprietor, Bar and Bilised Rooms Terma moderata. „Special terms so familles on application to

Telephons K. 3. Telegraphie Add: PALACE"

J. H. OXBERRY, Propriater.

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(THE DELT AMERICAN HOTEL IN HANI ODGORET,)

ICH HOUSE STREET

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