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¡G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONELE APPRAISER.

AND SURVEYOR..

-Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.

FOURTH TOURNAMENT.

AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL, TO-MORROW

FRIDAY, March 4th at 9.15.x,

POFTER-Rousa CONTEST FOR

ΣΤΑ

WTER-Wnt ChametoNSHIP OF THE Cotes, and the

Police Reserve Belt

**Mounted:

Bolween burntley Berrison,

RN.Y.P

Holder):

And Iron Bur of Manila, P. 3.

(Chilenger)

2. T-Round Overweight CastiNT

Between Jack Ribblar, Chinese

Maritime Customs, Chatea And Seaman Deconhart, H.M.S.

"Hawkins."

1 B-Bous& CONTENT FOR TEK AMA

TELE LIGHTWEART CHAMPIONSHIP PF THE COLONY,

Between Young Maher, ex-Driver,

RA..

(old)

And E. RA. Baicen, H M. S. "Hawkins." (Challenger).

ALSO THREE Ornes Six-OND CONTACTS.

BOOKING:-Cash only at

Messrs MOTRIES. TUESDAY next for members only. WEDNESDAY to FRIWAY for the

Glesersi Public.

J.C. WILDIN,

Ianager.

H. G. N. TINSON.

Hat. Secytary-

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

SATURDAY, March 6th,

TEA DANSANT from 4 to 7 man DINNER DANCE from S

SUNDAY, March 7th, ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS, During

TA and afternoon Tea.

INTIMATIONS

HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE AILMENTS.

When there are disease prevalent in the season, it is the most dangerous to Intants and so Great Care must be taken in feeding them with proper food otherwise they would give their Mothers a lot of trouble. To avoid the trouble is to feed them with LAC TOGEN which resembles human milk. It is easily digested and promotes healthy appetite. It keeps the Infanta thriving and free from all Infantile Allments.

ACTOGE

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Nola Aganta for Həngkeur and South Ch Nun,.42 £18.. Cannaught Roast Central, Hoogkong. Telephone Nos. 1939 Ja 1530

WE HAVE

Great varieties of used `and unused

POSTAGE STAMPS. Single, sata, packets, bags, and on Approval looks.

FOR COLLBOTORS.

GRAUA & 00.,

DEALERS IN POSTAGE STAMPS, POST CARDS, SERDE, Toys, 4. No 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box $90.

Eongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

IIIIIIIIIIIĮ Į KUD-

THE CHINA MAIL.

"CAPSTAN"

XMEDIUM STRENGTH

CAPSTAN

Navy Cut Cigarettes.

LO.WILLS.

10 CIGARETTES & MOUTHPIECES.

* LID

CAPSTA

Navy

Cut

Cigarettes

H.O.WIS Tola London

Navy Cut Cigarettes

"CAPSTAN Tobacco

Sold in Packets of

For the Pipe

10 & 20 Cigarettes & in Tins of 50 Cigarettes.

ALSO

MAGNUMS

in Airtight Tins of 50.

OB FAINABLE AT ALL

STORES.

The Advertisemens is imned by British-American, Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd.

[1] JI XXXIIIŢIEI TIKIUTEXJX IIIIEATIN

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920.

NOTIERS.

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,

HEALTH

against SICKNESS.

By taking our ROOSTER BRAND" MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG-NOODLES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Soop Stuff REGULARLY you will have no complaint of any kind of sicknèss, as all our Producta, being manufactured from Flour of the Best Quality and under the most Sanitary Method: aan. be easily digested and 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 atten KİM.. Terms moderate, especially for Agonoles.

Trade: Mark.

THE

THE HING WAH PASTE - MFG. CO., LTD. HEAD OFFICE: Hongkong, Nos. 47 & 48, Connaught Road Central Tel No. 2230

Branch OrrIce: Shanghai, Nos. 433. & 43, Nanking Road. Faeromes: Hongkong.. Wing Hing Street, Cassoway Bay and Shanghai, No. 71. North Saschow Rand.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING :—

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

J. H. TAGGART, MAXAGER

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

ORGAN RECITAL

ON

MONDAY next, at 6 p.m.

BY

Mr. DENMAN FULLER,

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

HE Eteamship

THE

*ANYO MARU,“

From SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS

via SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU

& JAPAN PORTS.

250

The above named Steamer Laving aired Monday, Marth 1, 1320, consigons Cargu

hereby noted to present their Bills of Lading take im counter-signature, and mediate delivery from alongside steamer the Company's Godown, where all ergo impeding immédiate discharge 'will he landed at consigneer risk.

Bhorage wit beascod ugo remaining undelivered after Monday, March 8, 1920.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Com pany's Godown, where game will be mamined, on Monday, March 6

t20A.M.

Ko claims will be recognised after the goods bave left the steamer or Gadown and none will be entertained i presented later than three weeks after

erical of atesober.

Ho Fire Insurance whatever will be abotod.

T. DAIGO,

“Manager,

Hongkong, March 3, 1920. /

KEE CHEUNG

HIGH CLANS PHOTOGRAPHEZ. Tee-House Btroot Tel. 1013:

Portrait taken in any.

Style desired.

Photographic Supplies" of Every description."

CHERRY Z uv,

ZZLUTK STREET, Jppal & Hingrong Hotel. Telephone No. 481

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

*THE NEW FRENCH RYMEDY,

THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION N03

Ma. 1tar der Caserth Na. I for alot MEYA DIBOLIG: @Na: 3 for Chromic Weaknec

IOCHEMISTS, FRIEKIN ENGLANDÉS 1.0.2M WLondon.

KRE TEADI BUE. DOTY.

• SUMUJHE PACKETS

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEER

ASAHI

B

SA

LAGERI

SPECIALLY

EXPUR

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ASAHI

BEER

LAGER BEER

BOL. ABETE: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.

CLOTHING PRICES IN 1920. year. In every direction the rates

NO SIGN OF DECREASE.

GLOOMY PROSFECT FOR THE

PUBLIC.

for materials are steadily mounting. and the world demand for apparel is heavily in excess ofthe world's sup ply. With the whole world clamour- ing for greatly increased supplies, there has been a dérand on the part of labour in almost every country for a reduction of working hours, bring ing production in many cases down A home drapery trade corresponto below the pre-war level. and dent writes to The Times-

BURGLARS' BELIEFS.

Seldom will a burglar proceed to crack a crib without a mascot. of some sort in his possession.

Some burglars will not, break into. a house which bears a number they dislike it is generally that of the policeman who effected their arrest on a previous occasion. Others will accentuating still further the wide not undertake a midnight job if there Rather more than a year ago after margin between demand and supply, is a new moon, this has been regard- Wool cotton, linen, sikk, anded as a bad omen, but a halo round the signing of the Armistice expec-

artificial silk fabrics all are on a a full moon gladdens the heart of talion became fairly general among much higher level than ever before. Bül Sikes. traders that drapery and clothing Every manufacturing cost, including Pickpockets, too, are highly super- prices would come down speedily the very important one of labour stitious. The light-fingered, fratern- and permanently, from the high continues to advance. A drop in ity seldom pick the pockets of a raw wool rates was admittedly re cross-eyed or a club-footed person. levels to which they had attained carded at the last auction sales in To do so would mean courting during the war. In that belief mapy London and elsewhere, but this has disaster. Finding a twisted coin manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, exercised no effect on quotations for among the contents of a stolen and shippers, who had covered their yarns or pieces Necessarily values purse will often induce a pickpocket requirements for several months of the raw materials govern to some to throw the purse away. The keep- ahead in anticipation of a prolonga-extent prices for the made up goods, ing of it is supposed to signify early tios of the war well into 1919, made but in regard to woollens and arrest.

ments.

winter season.

PARENTS

A

DISAPPOINTED

2.10

When Girls do not Thrive.

and

*gus

worsteds the principal factor is the Before commencing their nefarious frantic efforts to cancel their engage output from the spinning mills, the work, some pickpockets look about Government officials in charge of dyers, and the weaving sheds. Even for the first policeman in sight. wool textile supplies for military during the past week woollen man- Should the bread back of the man in ufacturers have notified further blue be turned towards them, a pro-, needs were also of this impression and the official Issue prices for wool advances: To take one case alone, table day is assured: if he faces and tops were reduced several pence proximate prices quoted only six them, the majority will plump for as per pound, so that "cheaper.clothing eeks ago have been raised 2s. 3d. eary closing day.". would be available. As a matter yard for overcoatings for next of fact prices did fall noticeably: but that was merely a temporary

The great difficulty with many decline due entirely to the great producers of clothing and drapery is majority of buyers "holding of the to obtain adequate supplies of mat, market for a few months. Obviously, erials Buyers who have delayed the cessation of buying could not purchasing in the fear that values continue indefinitely, for stocks were might tumble after they had bought. In the matter of health and progress gradually being depleted, and there now find themselves caught short, boys wally cause more worry than girls was only one alternative to replent- and to keep their factories rolag to parents, during the first ten year of shing them, and that was to close they will be compelled to pick up life. Then things are reversed, as is down altogether and go out of supplies wherever they can and at apparent in almost any family.

As soon as they begin to enter their whatever price in demanded of them. business.

Gradually, therefore, home trade Silk has become a difficult pre-teens girls too often prove a disappoint- buyers were forced on the market blem recently, and the situation is ment a wall a worry to parents. Perhaps they are growing too fast, or again and they found that a vast likely to become worse. The con lensons exhaust them They turn peevish and steadily increasing volume of sumption of silk goods throughout and irritable, become pale, thin and urgeat business was also coming the world, and: particularly in the sickly, always seem to be siling

likely to gu into 4 độclina. from the Continent. Quotations im United States, has increased enor

A wise mother recognises mediately began to sour, and have mously in the last few years, and, on continued to advance ever since the other hand, production has of sumaris Too little blood," she saTE to herself and blood that is as thin Today, they are far above anything sensibly diminated, Prices continue and pale as the girl herself. There's that was thought possible during to advance. Felt hats are greatly the cause of weakness and arrested deve- even the worst days of the war, and below demand, mainly on account of lopment. The ailing anemie girl mart they give no indications of stopping the lack and the extraordinarily have now, healthy blood and Dr. Wil high prices of the fur for the better well known by greatnambers of mothers lians' pink pills supply that nend, 'as is in their upward progress...

The full measure of the dearthqualities, and a dearth of female As the nas: rich blood made by Dr. of supplies caused by the war has labour for the trimming processes. Williama pink pills pourishes every apparently not been generally realiz Open orders are being placed for 1921 part of the system, so hindies girls and ed. Production in a number of the delivery. Quotations for men's stray young women become brighter. They belligerent countries on the Continentboater" hats are up 25 to 30 per regain their colour and charm, their eyes was stopped completely for years, cent. on a year ago, Japanese plait have the sparkle of health, they are no longer brentnless and thin, but boarty and-ln France and Italy output was merchants having broken their con and full of life one of the earliest signs, of comparatively small dimensions tracts with English importers and of this improvemens is a keen appetite About 80 per cent, of the woollen sold the straw at much higher prices for meals and ability to digest, food,

What has been don in countless cases trade production in this country was to American and other buyers. on "official account, and the War Supplies will in consequence be short, of the kind is Pogled natin, Ameica, Aftos and other conn- Office absorbed approximately three and merchants have been rationed Australia South

tries by Dr, Williams pink pills con las fourths of the output from the whole Even if rares for raw materials break; be done for you and yours. The time. sale clothing factories. An enormous in the coming months this will not to berin is now. Druggists everywhere deficit of supplies for civilian trade effect-apparel prices for some time solf Dr. Walling plik pills also post was consequently built up during the afterwards, as practically all cloth free, at $1.30 the bottle. 3- for six, war, and it will take many months to purchases for next sutumn and winter from Dr. Williams Medicias Co.,

Brechten Road, Bhanghai,!. - have been made, and, in addition, wipe it off.

A postcard request will bring 300 There are no signs whatever of much business has been placed for helpful bookloty Plain Talks to We

men," free. cheaper clothing during the present the spring and summer of 1921"

these

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CENTRAL LOCATION

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Next to Hongkong Bold.

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