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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

General Auctioneers Bars, Coal and Général Produce Brokers and Commissión Agents

PROPRIETORS

"Wan“ Coni Storage.

Bentley's

dr. x, a dé à 8th Editions, A 1 Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Addres "MARION" HONGKONG,

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

FSX Undersigned, hare rored katru Tsions to all by Publie Anction.

(For Account of the Concerned);

ON

FRIDAY,

March 28, 1920, at 10.30 AD

ab their Sales Rooms, Nɔ, 8,

ו.

Des Vaux ROAD; Corner of Ioo House Strest,

SCOTRY Valaabia Household Furniture, (Removed to Sales Rooms for convenience of sale), including:-

Brass Twin Bedsteada, Teakwood Twin Bedstead, Desk and Bookcase. combined, Gramaphone and Records,

INTIMATIONS.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN

AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

THE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY THE

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Confpany # will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6 Connaught Road on SATURDAY, the 27th March, 1920, át 17 a.m. for

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

735 WORDS SINIER TIČNE,

PRAPAID

Every additional & words & Cents.

WANTED.

THE CHINA. MAIL.

THE CHINESE COOLIE THINKS OUR MANNERS VILLAINOUS.

Ing-place how the lowly one who scrubs his floors and the grimy, one who carries in the bricks address each! other"est "venerable" persons, mak politely alt manner of solicitous ques- Fions, seate down to a formal cup of The casikh traveller in China who tea, if both have time, and bow at ges home and writes & hook, hand-parring, murmuring pleasantries the

while. korgy and astrated with

"It is scarcely an exaggeration to say of remples, tee-shops, and that there is more formality shown al sach, seldom is in possession of the formal meeting of linrickisha coolies right dope" as to the animde "offthan, in a council of European ambas- sadors. Every coolie, whether or not

the purpose of receiving a Statement WANTED-By'.a British Import the natives. He are told by a Writer he can read and write, knows the tradi- |

of Accounts and the Report of tha General Managers for the year end. ing 31st December, 1919, and electing a. Consulting Committee and Audi

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY the 20th March, 1920, until SATURDAY, the 27th March, 1920, both days inclusive.""

SHEWAN, TOMES, & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, March 10, 1920.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCE COMPANY, LIMITED:

TO

and. Export Firms a competent who has recently made an investigations of right conduct and the bene Steno-typist A thorough know ledge of English essential State tion of the subject. The complexity voler and democratic injunctions of experience and salary required to at the ways of the Chinese, it seems, the Confucian classics. The poorest Box; No. 1180 e/o "China Mail."

makes it impossible to form just of knows all the laws of etiquette, knows Tabourer from the meanest household

accufata concepts of their social life, how he should address every member publje and private morals and class of society, and the precise form of distinctions without a more thorough courtesy with which he should be TO LE-A SHOP in Nathan Road, that may be drained from treated by every man from the gover-

Kealoon,

superficial observation. In his article, nor of his province down to his fellow Apply to Humphreys Estate & Finance which entitled. What the Chinese fabourers. He knows how to conduct Co., Ltd, Alexandra Buildings

Ccolle Thinks of the Estopean,** and himself in any gathering in which he is published fy. The Far-Easter Re-may And himself, and is as much, at Tew¬(Tokyo), this writer, among other ease with his intellectual superiors as things, furnishes the information that, with his equals or inferiors. He is in spoke ofs del domidental nations to seldom embarrassed, seldom awkward

PUBLIC AUCTION

---

on

THE Undersigned has received in stractions from Means" "Tiratie NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that& Co., to sell by Public Auction

ORDINARY the

YEARLY MEETING of Shareholders will be TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1930, held in the Office of the Company, 2

at $ p.m. Queen's Buildings, Hongkong. OF

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell SATURDAY, 27th March, 1920. at Noos, for consideration of the Direc

The Steamer "DAGMAR" tors Report and Statement of Accounta for the year ending 31st Decembar, as she now lies in the Menam Biver,

Bangkok, with all her machinery, goar',

1919.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 19th to the 27th March, 1920, bath days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager.

Close Ware and Crockery, nod a number Eengkong, March 15, 1920.

of lots of new Farniture made by Messrs.

Wm. Fowell & Co. 300 yards new Dam-

ask Table Cloth, two pieces Khaki

Velvet Card (new)

Also

cases Fortified Lime Juice, and

HONGKONG CLUB

one. (Evinrude) detachable out- THIRTY OUTING A LE

board Motor with automatic reverse.

TerrCash.

HUDARS & ROUGE,

Auctions.

Bongbong, March 23, 1820.

TUESDAY

March 30, 1920, at 11 a.m., at No. 8, Humphreya Avon us, Kowloon,

BUNDAY

Vainable Household, Furniture,

dc.

C

therein contained, consisting of:---

NOTICE.

THIRTY-FOURTH YEARLY

Members of the BONCTONG CLUB, will be teld in the Club House on MONDAY, March 20th, 1920, at 5.30 r..

By Order,

C. F. P. HAY,

Chairman.

Hongkong, March 18, 1920.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

and appurtenances, etc.. IET tons gross Reg.

921 tons bet Reg.

H

the contraszar la gorfand of and never boorish in his relations with | sharply defines ader distinctions. The Chinese.

so-called cookie we lum, is not a The foreigner who has learned a fopeless outcast hor is he considered little Chinese addresses his dignified" of lower intelligence than the govern-majordomo as you," without any ing classes," He may not be able to polite modifications of the raw pro Street,red and write, but he is familiar with noun, and the Chinese addresses the the Confucin classics and is well foreigner as **you," "because he versed in the laws of etiquette and thinks him too much a boor to under- Bourtesy. It appears, further that stand a more pokie expression, the his opinion of the man from the West he would probably start a conversa- is far from Batering to the latter, the rion with the cook with you, my coolle's main iden apparently being elder brother," or "you the venerable that the European is a barbarian with one." These petty courtesies, with vihainous mariners. To be tolerated which the average Westerner will not only because he is powerful and rich be bothered, even when he knows As The Review puts the matter if

1800 tons deadweight capacity on 17 feet mean draft. Speed 10 knots,

This Steamer went gebore in the Oulf of Siam, was safred, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patobed up.

them, are essentials of Chinese inter- course, and the man who ignores them. commands no more respect than if he were to run about naked and paint his skin,

Westerners are almost universally convinced that China is a land of classes and castes and of closely drawn social distinctions; yet nothing could.] Inspection orders ca application to more untrue or unjust As a mat. The writer then discusses the per the East Asiatic Co., Ltd. Bangkok.

The Steamer to be at purchaser's risks of fact, the word "cookie" is not turbation of the Chinese when he after fall of bammer, when purchase Chinese, and, outside the narrow comes in contact with the Europeam coast belt of foreign influence, there The latter is incomprehensible to him. money is to be paid.

iso Chinese word which descubes The Westefner goes blithely on, his For fall particulars apply to

such a class. The poor are those way, committing terrible. breaches of GEO. P. LAMMERT,

who eat bitterness, or those de etiquette and otherwise Ceporting him- Auctioneer. serving pity: Isbourers are described sell in a manner that awakens the

Or.

as labourers and have their dignity: Celestial's resentment and conterupt, MESSRS. THORESEN & Co,

farmers.rank high in the social scale, Further Hongkong.

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEE!

TOYO KISEN KAISHA. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE Steamship

an EXTRAORDINARY GEN-

"SHINTO MARU,"

and beggars have their individual It is not very flattering, but it is merits. But poter serves to de- certainly true that whatever respect scribe what the European calls the is shown a foreigner in the Orient is * coolie class," and in Chinese thought a tribute to his generosity or his heavy it is non-existent. For in China no hand, until he has acquired such an hereditary class survived the wreck of imitate knowledge of the Chinese

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the feudal system in the third century language and the Chiese mind that B.C., but the members of the Imperial he is no longer a foreigner. The family and the descendants of Con-coolie has much less respect for the fucius.

man from the ocean" ihar the man- There is no country in which wealth darin has because he has less appre- is so much sought after and so care ciation of "foreign achievements and ERAL MEETING of the Members of From SAN FRANCISCO, via HONO fuity handled as in China, and yet foreign culture. He judges us by our the Fox50G CLUB will be held in the Teakwood small Sideboard and Din- Club House, Connaught Road Central, LULU JAPAN PORTS & MANILA. none in which money plays so small appearances and our conduct, and in ner Waggon, Overmantel, Rattan Farm-Victoria, Bangkong, an MONDAY, the

The above named Steamer having part, in determining a man's social the light of Chinese tradition and Chi- ture and Matting, Glass Ware. Crockery Twenty-Ninth day of March; 1920,

in which 'áncesfors are mich rever.barbarians, inflicted for some strange add Pictures, two Teakwood Wardrobes immediately after the Yearly General arrived Wednesday, March 24, 1920, status. There is no country, agam, nese standards we are ignorant, brutal

of Cargo AZE hereby (Berelled Mirrors), two single and one Meeting, when a Resolution as detailed consignees

which man's relathers and their In be treaty ports, especially in double Beds, Shanghai Bath, Ice Chest. the notice exhibited in the Chib notified to present their Bills of Lading nced as in China, and yet none in reason upon the land.

House will be proposed as an Extra for counter-signature, and take achievements have so little, influence Shanghai, where genstations of Chi- Meat Safe; Cooking Stove, &c,

ordinary Resolation.

madiste delivery from alongside steamer Should the Resolution be passed by or the Company's Godown, where all One Piano by Challen & Son, London, the required majority it will be sub cargo impeding immediate discharge will

mitted for confirmation as a Special be landed at consigners' risk. ' Resolution to a fecond Extraordinary Etorage will General Meeting which will be subsecargo remaining undelivered after

The highest title in the land is no quently convened.

Wednesday, 30th instant. Dated the 19th day of March, 1929.

All broken, cbsled and damaged higher than that of teacher." The By Order of the General Committee, packages will be landed into the Com- son of the barrow-coolie who makes

C. E. P. HAY,

pany's Godown, where same will bhünself a master of Chinese erudition examined, on Wednesday, 30th inst. Chairman.

Also

in first class condition..

Catalogues will be issued. TRAM:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 24, 1920,

FOR SALE.

THE Undersigned have received in- THE THE

structions to sell

(30% &0000XT OF ZRE CONCERNIE),

The Yacht

"ERIN"

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

THE

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Member of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COM

sa she now lies of Ah King's ShipwayERCE will be held on MONDAY, Further particulars and inspecting March 29th, 1920, at 4 o'clock precisely orders may be cbtained from the under- in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE signed.

ROOM, CHARTERED BANK BUILD. Terms --Cash,

ING, for the following purposes :-

1. To receive the Report and Ac- counts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1919.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, March 29, 1990.

A COMPLETE AERATED WATER

PLANT FOR SALE.

The Machines are made by Mears. Bratby & Hinchliffe, Ltd., Manches- ter, and guaranteed in perfect working order. This complete plant

2. Te elect a New Committee.

3. To transact any General busineca.

By Order,

في مست

E. A. M. WILLIAMS,

Secretary.

Hongkong, March 15, 1920.

st II A.M.

to

OB

No claims will be recognised after the goods have left the steamer or Godown and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival of steamer.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected.

T. DAIGO,

Hongkong, March 14, 1920.

Manager?':

A. KWAI & CO.

15 & 19 Connaught Road Central, HOBOKOMO,

"NAVY CONTRACTORS" Ship Chandlers Coal Marchanju, Ball-Makers, General Storyksop

Boap and Bods Manufacturera. Dabis add. "AXWAI".

Tel No: 1985.

AND

will turn cut 2,400 dezon Aempted" HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER|| TAIYO & CO.

water per day.

KHONG SANG HONG LTD.

F. O. Box 390.

Hongkong.

Just arrived

a large assortment of FILTERS

I, Gallons up to i gallons

*C, E, WARREN & CO., LTD.

Not. 30 & 32 Des Vaux Road Centrál.

Established 1900

OF COMMERCE.

CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.'

A NEW CLASS for "BEGINNERS" will commence од MONDAY, 5th April, 1920, if sufficient support be forthcoming.

Application for enrolment and er- quiries regarding hours of School, Fees, etc., should be made to the undersigned ta early as possible.

By Order,

E. A. M. WILLIAMS,

Secretary.

1

Hongkong, March 18, 1920.

REPULSE BAY HOTELAY

SATURDAY, March 27th,

TEA DANSANT from 4 to 7. P.M. DINNER DANCE from 87..

SUNDAY, March 28th.

ORCHESTAL CONCERTS daring.

and Afternoon

(JAPANESE) BOOTS AND SHOES MADE TO ORDEZ

No. Sayadham Str

To betal

RITIKH

household.

A Welcome Visitor

at any time in

every Every

Bug. Flea, Beetle,

Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with

KEATING'S

on popular esteem. In each gen-nese have come in contact with genera eration the individual is judged on his tions of men from across the sea, there merits, and, apart from moral excel-are better understanding and more lence, menit in Chita means scholar appreciation of the outsider's merits These apart from his bad manners. ship.

same bad manners have even proved contagious, and the countryman who comes to Shanghai is horrified to hear seeming gentlemen address each other may converse on equal terms with with all the crudeness of foreign say- ministers of state, and dine with the lordly, the his gown is faded and greasy and his poverty forces him to tell stories for a livelihood.

Since the Chinese recognize in every man the right to the fruit of his Labour and intelligence, they also re- cognize in every man the potentiality of great things and however low man is in his fortune, he is still a man and is entitled to consideration and courtesy. Many a great states man in Ching, has a more intimate and sympathetic knowledge of his cart- man's life and affairs than the butler of a European, household has of the conchman's life and aspirations: The Chinese carter knows that the states- man is a scholar who holds a high office because he has earned it, sh he treats him with the respect which his attainments deserve; but the statesman-scholar never forgets that the carter is a man and is entitled to human consideration.

The foreign visitor to Chinese offi- cial establishments will be amazed to hear the Great Man" discussing! politics with his servants, and per haps carrying on a waggist conversa- tion with the European's own humble retainer He marvels at the freedom with which his servant responds to the advances of the august person, and the grace and courtesy which he displays in his speech and actions.

Sometimes the. European. will won- der why these social graces; displayed

lavishly by his servant on such ocer- gions, have been conspicuous by their absence in the latter's relations, with his, European employer. The explana tion is, in effect, that the Chinaman fects such display would be wasted on the Westerner, and he is apparently averse to casting his pearls before swine, is different with it comes

ages.. But the traveller in communi- ties which have not come under Euro-

satisfaction of knowing that unless he Dean influence may have the doubtful

conform to the traditions of the land, the miserable persons whom he lightly classes as coolies consider themselves, and are considered by all, his social superiors. The coolie is a "man of Han," who may become a prime minister, but the foreigner is a bar- barian and for him there is no hope- he is beyond, the pale.

Mr. William Patrick Tells How Cuticura Healed His Child··

My child brbs from hoad- to foot with fints red pitaples. Wa had him |

tresind," but i did him no good, and be kept getting worse until he was one mesu af inching scales. Ho could not rest nightor day, and world scratch until he bied.

"I read of Catients Soap and Oint- ment and wrote for a free sample. It gave him great relief so I purebased „more, and it took two tablets of Ceti- tra Soap and three boxes of Cuticus Ointment to him." (Signed) William Patrick, Trubshaw Cottages, Harrishead, Badini, Eng.

When used for every-day todlet par- posde Colicies Dorp zot only cleans, purffion, and beautifies, but it prevents many ligilo akin, troubles ll' assisted by OCORRIOTIKă mué of Cuticura Olament to soothe end, heal the first algus of kin trochies Abspimly nothing "better. SOLD to class, Clotment to kaal, Bikin Dypot: F. Howbery & Sunaj Lúd., 57, Chat.

"A FAMILY NECESSITY. LIVERY

RY family abeuld be

provided

NOTICES

THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. AND THE UNITED BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and MOTOR ACCIDENT. For and Particular appply to the General Agenta.

UNION TRADING CO., Pince's Building..

ROUND THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG

BY

THE BREEZY GARAGE MOTOR CÁRS

AT

THE SPECIAL REDUCTION PRICE {ONLY ONE ROUND, NÒ STOP ON THE JOURNEY.) Chandler 7 passenger Car - Hadson 7 passenger Car Oakland 5 passenger Car.

BREEZY GARAGE

(opposite Cheat Market) BRANCH DEPOT

•' ́(apponite: The Sun Co.)

$12.00

$12.00

$ 80J

'Phone 2499

'Phone 3473

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, ad. B.

PHOTO SUPPLASS, DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY,

No. 17A, QUZEN'S ROAD CINYLAL, BONGKONG.

THE HOTEL ASIA

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The highest building in Canton affording a panoramic bird's eye view of the whole city and suburbs.

Large and airy fooms, Elevators, Electric Lights and Fans installed.

Eot and cold water service fitted, Excellent Cuisine, Ear and Billiard rooms, Roof Garden, Cinematograph Theatre and every modern convenience provided.

Special monthly and family rates can be arranged on application to

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NANYANG BROTHERS TOBACCO CO.

165, Des Voeux Road,

The Globe

with Chamberlain's "ain Balm at GUNU BATANG TANES to intercourse with his own people, all times. Sprains may be eured in however. His courteous manner then

much less tire, when promptly treated.

is in evidence, we are told, whether side and chest, and rheumatic pains aro Lame becs, lame shon cor, pains in the his dealings are with a representative some of the distans for which it 3-sex-

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come he may observe from some hd-

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