1920-02-28 — Page 2

G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR

Public Auctions-

TAK. Undandirned han received. Instrue. To by Public Auction,

on

THURSDAY, March 4, 1030,

commencing at 11 mm. No. 8 Stewart "seraces No. 94,

Tink

A Quantity of

Vabable · Household Furniture,

including

Tank extension dining table. Silver Cabinet with Chubli's Lock, Terk Book- a. Tek wanime with hevelled mirror, Teak Dining Table with hevell dimitror, Marhla The tank washstand. Bras mounted bedren? TISC with wire and hair mattress nad mosquito nets, Chili's Cot with wire and hair realTPARES,

etc.,

etc.

A Quantity of Forks, Bad Utensils,

Room, Pantry, and Kitchen

etc.. etc.

Also

Н

One Perambulator in good enadition. One Callection of Butterflies and Morta

One Collection of Snakes boules,

A number of Peros, and Planta in

jobs.

On view from Wednesday the 3rd.

Mach, 1920.

Catalogues will be issued...

Terms: Cash on delivery,

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Bongtong. Februnty 20, 1920.

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

FOUND in Ice Hae Street, ONE

BUNCH of KEYS

Apply to the

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Central Police Station.

AS WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

No

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that: be THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hong- kang, on SATURDAY. the 6th March, 1957, at Nous, for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounta to the 31st October, 1019.

The Register of Shares of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNES DAY, the Bad day of Manch. 1920, r MONDAY, the 8th day of March, 1920 both days inclusive, during which perio no transfer of aures can be registered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, February 26, 1920.

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NOTICE.

TOTICE IS HERKRY GIVEN that the service of Mr. Wong Fook Loy, Sin Chren Kam and Chan Hou Piz with this Compier, hava ter- minated on the 30th day of the 12th Mooo of the Ki 1 Year (the 19th February, 1920) and those whom it may concern are requestert to take note beroof.

Dated this 20th day of February, 1920.

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG.

CO, LTD. 47 & 48, Connaught Road, Central,

Hengkung

A COMPLETE AZRATED WATER PLANT FOR SALE-

The Machines are mide by Messrs. Bratby & Hinchliffe. Ltd., banches- tor, ni gaweantee in pa feat working order. This complete plat will turn out 2,400 dozen Acrated water per day..

KHÔNG SANG HONG LID.

P. Ó. Box 320.

MARTIN'S

Hongkong.

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GPILLS

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MUMEY A.

Japanges Photographers. All kinds of Photographie Work done În latest styles also Passport Photodi

Developing, and Printing—for Amateurs & Specialty. Ta lại theo loud Central Tel. 254.

INTIMATIONS

HOW TO AVOID. INFANTILE AILMENTS.

When there are diseases prevalent in the season, it is the most dan«erous to icfants and so Gress Oure must be taken in feeding them with proper food otherwise they would give their Mathers a lot of trouble. To avoid the trouble is to feed them with Lào. TOGEN-hich resendes human milk. it is easily digested and promotes healthy appetite. It keeps the Infants thriving and tree from all. Infantile Ailments..

SEIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sule agenta for Hongkong and Bouth- China Non 17 & 18. Cannaaghi Roñf Central,, Hongkong, Telephone No. 1399230

FOR SALE

Fine Collection (of"

12500

POSTAGE STAMPS

all different. Guaranteed Ganuine and all

Nice Mean Coples

for

$750. net..

GRAÇA & 00, Deal rs in Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Strost, P.O. Box 820.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

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ORDER

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Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

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This Advertisecant is sound by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd.

NEWS FROM HOME.

(From Our Own Correspondent,}

LABOUR'S 'SHANT'.

LONDON, Jan. 9. Twice the iron moulders, core makers and pattern makers have sent their chosen representatives into conference with the employers, twice these representatives have agreed a settlement, and twice the men have thrown over the agreement. Thus do the labour men to-day strike at their own machinery for collective bargaining.

mile post." I am afraid there is some justice in his comments, but I am in hopes that my prediction may come true, after all, through an awakened public consciousness that everything wo while must be worked for, and if we want ease we must first of all labour.

HIGHER PRICES. Apart from that, and the ever lasting transport chaos the outlook is distinctly good. Foreign buyers are here in great numbers, buying whatever they cas is quality for early delivery. Stocks at home and abroad are bare, and the predictions are that with these abnormal de mands we shall have still higher some time to come, The consequence is that for six. prices for teen weeks there have been next to especially in boots and textiles. no castings made in this country, i One great scandal among us is the south of the Tweed, and works after way houses and fiats ever £70 in works have closed, so that whereas rental or rateable value are being thereareonly about fifty thousandizon- exploited. Officers and others back moulders on strike they have brought from the war are desperate in their out 300,000 associated workers at efforts to re-establish their homes and least, whose interest in. the strike is owners and agents are battening nil, and whose families are suffering upon them and-extracting preposter privation. The last works' to close ous rents and premiums. were those of Messrs Crossley, the motor car makers of Manchester, who turned off 3,000 men this week end for lack of castings.

I know of one or two specimens that will indicate the trend of affairs. One, a flat in Hampstead, was let at £75 and was worth no more. The It is quite possible that by the time agreement is up, so the tenant is this letter has passed Suez, this long given notice to quit, the rent is raised strike will have ended disastrously to £110, and a stiff premium is ask. for the men, but the effects will be ed. Another flat. In Maida Vale, the felt for months yet, and as it is we normal rent of which is £150, is now have lost millions of pounds worth raised to £250 and a premium of of foreign orders. In 1913, whan £800 is demanded. Another nea values were far lower than now, we Baker Street. bitherto let at £180, exported machinery to the value of now let at £400. Near by a very £37,000,000 in round figures. This small flat is offered at a reasonable last year, with values very high ren; but a few sticks of furniture indeed, we only exported £32,000,000 must be bought at £1,500 (they-aré worth. The falling off in quantity certainly not worth more than £300) was of course immensely more, and before the applicant can gain posses it was largely due to the moulders sion. This conditional sale of furni strike.

ture is a favourite trick, and as Par of lament, dominated by owners and Professor Middleton Smith Hongkong University has done their lawyers does nothing to stop good work while over here on leave the robbery, the attention of the by writing, after a tour of the country, Excess Profits officials is being direct serious warnings as to how such ed to operators by the newspapers. strikes as these are bampering the A NEW DEPARTURE return to prosperity of a nation now tax-laden in an extreme degree.

Now we have the railwaymen wants ing more, and there are rumours of more strikes still in the offing.

Just after Christmas, feeling some thing of the optimism of the season, I ventured to write in one of the leading dailies, an article on the

great opportunity for commerical There are those who think this is expansion afforded by the opening of bad omen for those who are stick year I likened the prospective i ing to the old compradoresystem, and activity of the coming twelve months marks the beginning of a new era. ta 23 Marathon and said "this nation is stripped for a race that

Much fun and exaggeration was woven around Professor Porta's pre- dictions of coming bad weather. They were depicted as meaning the end of the world, bat as the Prefessor” actually gave them, they have comeout about right, for ocean passages have. been about the roughest on record, earthquakes hare destroyed much property and miny lives in Mexico, and storms have swept over hill and dale in two hemispheres. Evan great ships like the Mauretania have suf- fered badly from the force of the Atlantic gales, and several suiller ships have been wrecked.

WILD WEST METHODS.

It has taken longer than was ex- pected for the crime wave to follow the war. We all expected that im- mediately following the return of soldiers grown accustomed to vio- lence we should have a great wave of robberies and similar crimes. Fer-

haps we discounted the effect of the after the men came home. But now we are becoming accustomed to

the gratuities that were distributed

hold-ups" of isolated banks and post offices, often in broad daylight. I think in few cases has the assilant got sway for good. They generally enter masked, hold up the staff with revolvers and clear out with a few hundreds in notes and small cash. It is bringing Wild. West, methods to our Old World cities, and it is gener ally disastrous to the operators: One conspicuously successful coup was in South London the other evening, and the police are still seeking the desperadoss. It is a disquieting fact at the last five years have unsettled many, who are convinced they are entitled to a life of ease, without working for it. We shall have to stand firms in many matters before we get back to rational conditions. On the railways and at the docks the pilferage in colossal.

FESTIVITIES.

Dances have been more than usually popular this holiday season. The news from Shanghai that, a I attended one ball last week at the Chinese commercial representative is Albert Hall which nearly eight on his way to England to act as thousand people attended Fancy British resident buyer for a group of dress balls at Chelsea and elsewhere extraordinarily Chinese firms, with a view to direct have also bees dealings between British manu- successful. I hear that the young, facturers and Chinese distributors, Princes bave managed to enjoy spre has aroused great interest, especially of these masked balls incognito with in Manchester.

cut being suspected. This whisper has got abroad and the girls naturally gain an added filip of enjoyment from the anticipation of the possibl- lity of dancing with a Prince during the evening. What a field it opens for pratence on the part of poseurs.. will mean, adversity or prosperity This winter, so far, has been gasty The Royal family spent their holi for every citizen.”

rather than cold. We have had no days in Norfolk, where the King On that a racy South American really bitter. weather in the sense of had good sport, which was much who had been touring the country frost and snow, but we have had enhanced by the delight he had in wrote to me, continuing the metaphor very boisterous times, with warm seeing the Prince of Wales develop and saying that so far as he could and terribly unwholesome, moist observs John Bull still has big spells. The damp warmth apparenting as a really fine shot. The overcoat buttoned up, and was a few days ago now there is, a pored vent out with the guns and has reverted to her old habit of engaged in a squabble with his fect gale blowing that is giving taking long country walks. trainers as to whether rest houses sailormen on land and sea something were not to be provided at every to think about.

A STORMY WINTER.

sued on Faza

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY: 28, 1929.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

·Agents for 3-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

HEALTH against SICKNESS.

By taking our “ROOSTER BRAND" MACARONT, PASTE STARS, EGG-NODEES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Soup Stuffs REGULARLY you will have no complaint of any kind of sickness, as all our Products bolog manufactured from Flour of the Best Quality and under the moat. Sanitary Method can be arily digested sad give you GOOD HEALTH & STRENGTH.

Large quantities have been exported to various parts of the World: Your esteemed Orders will receive our prompt and careful sibution. Terza moderate, especially for Agencies

ENTRADE MARE.

THE HING WAS FASTE MFG. CO., LTD. HEAD OFFICE: Hongkong, Nos. 47 de 48, Commanght Road Central. Tel. No. 2330.. BRANCH OFFICE: Shanghai, Nos. 430 & 431, Kanking Bood. FACTS: Hongkong. Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay

and Shanghai, No. 91, Warta Soochow Road

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL

3. EL TAGGART,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feat above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs.

BLAIR,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

CENTRAL LOCATION

LI ELECTRIC TRAMS Pam Entrance, Electric Llíta, Faas and Lighting

A Baropean Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Byatar throughout. Best of Food and Service.

Talephone 313, Telegraphis Address :-' VICTORIA."

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Etar Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrio light and fan throughout and antirely noder new management." Cuisine under the parsonst superviatan of the proprietur, Bar and Billiard Booms. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to

Telephone K. Telegraphie Add: "PALACE “

JE OXBERRY, Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL DE WEB OQLONT.) ICE HOUSE STREET,

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yot, only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District. 42 Bedrooms, Excellent Culine, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terras Monthly and Family Rated on spplication to the Proprietress. Launches moot Passenger Bosta

Telegraphic Address “CARLTON."

TEL. 000

Ms. F. E. GAMERON.

ALEXANDRA CAFET

16, Des Voir Road Central. Next to Hongking Hotel

THE CAFE FOR A GOOD MEAL.

Books of Tickets are issued at $23, each Available for 30 Meals: Tiffin or Dinner.

Our SUPPER Speciality:

two Poached Eggs and Fillet of Fingaa Haddock.

BLUE BIRD

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