1920-05-07 — Page 2

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

·AND SURVEYORS

Public Auctions-

FEB Undersigned havs moolved in

Auction,

00

MONDAY, May 10, 1930,

commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Room:, & Daddell Street

125 pieces Brass Rods "

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Term-Cash on delivery.

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LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers

THE Undersigned have received 13- structions from Hesas. THORES IN

Co., to sell by Public Auction

-On

«TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1910, at 3 p.m.

athia: Salsa Rooms, Duddell Streat, The Steamer "DAGMAR"

she now lies in the Manam River; Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear

and appurtenances, etc. 1457 tomm gross Rog,

921 sens pet Reg.

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

This Steamer wear sahore in the Galf of Siam, was spired, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up..

Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., Bangkok.

The Steamer to be at parchaser's risk after fall of kammer, when purchase money is to be paid.

For full particulars apply to

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneer.

or

MR. THORESEN & Co,

Hoogkoox.

FOR SALE.

-One Complete Set of 25 Volumes

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (Never been used)..

Apply

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

MUMEY A.

Japanese Photographers. All kinds of Photographic Work done

- In Intent styles also Fassport Photos.

Developing and.. Printing · for Amateurs a Speciality.

Na là quens Bard Dentral Tol. 26-4.

A COMPLETE AERATED WATER PLANT FOR SALE.

The Machines are made by Memrs. Bratby & Hinchlife, Ltd., Manches- ter, and guaranteed in perfect working order. This complete plaat will turn out 2,400 dozen Asiated water per day.

KHÔNG BANG HONG LTD., 1:0. Box 390.

Hongkong..

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZIS SAN BRITTEN EXİNALA

MAJAGIC EXIS

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INTIMATIONS'

HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE AILMENTS.

When there are disenace provalent in the acsson, it. Is the most dangerous to Infants and as Great Care must be taken in feeding them with proper food, otherwise they would give their Mothers lot of trouble. Te svid the trouble is to food them with LAC TOGEN which resembles, human milk It is easily digested and promote# healthy appetite. It keeps the Infants thriving and free from all Infantile Ailments.

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ACT

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SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China. Nos. 4 à 18, Conannghe Road Central, Hongkong.

Talepton Non, 1939 & 2983

WE HAVE

"Just received:

A New Supply of

WAR and ARMISTICE STAMP3.

Many varieties and valuer of

NEW EUROPE Blac

CATALOGUES and ALBUMS for sale.

GRAUA & 004 No. 10, Wyndham Street, P..D.. Box (20.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS

T

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY &:00,

PADDER STREET, pport a. Hongkong Hobal. Talephone No. 491.

Hongkong, Marsh,30, 1914.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NĚ? THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION NĚ.3

No. 1 for Badder Outarti, Mo. Also, ✯

Dis, Mo. 3 for Curtalo WantnerIDE BOLS ST LEADINGREITEREN WALendon DELCZENches Co. HaverstockR2.,NV REE THOR MARKED. WORD 'THERLFION" 15 AM BET, HORY. STA UN APPUVANT. CHNUING FACESTE

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make "a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processen as thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our chargCA BIS really reasonable. Write for Price List and Ber!.

The Iiamond Dyeing and Drying Company.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

Draper.

2, 24, Wellington Street. 8, Fathan Road, Kowloon.

'chone 1402.

Just arrived

a large assortment of FILTERS

I, 1 Gallons up to 4 gallons

Boca AGENTBA** MITSUI BUSSBAN ELISHA.

C. E. WARREN'& CO., LTD. No 30 & 31 Des Voeux Hond Central.

Established 13 Ó-

THE

THE CHINA MAIL.

FAMOUS

"Embassy

"Embassy's

VIRGINIA

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES.

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

W.D.&HOWILLS.

BRISTOL & LONDON

ÁKUISTENER

RICAM TOBACCO CO, LTD, BENSTOL,LOVÝCH AKO 1

SOLD IN

Tins of 50

and 25 CIGARETTES

ALSO

Packets of

~ 10 CIGARETTES.

This Advertisement in jeaned by British-American Tobaco Co. (China) Lad

CHINA TRADE.

of a British insurance company to deal with Chinese business."

The Far East, however, offers tuch

IS GERMANY ATTEMPTING Toa wide field that British manufac

RE-ESTABLISH HIRSILY

IN CHINA?

INTERESTING THEORIES.

turers should have litle to fear from German competition prowded they wisely exploit their opportunities. The question of adequate representa

OUR DECADENT AGE.

The Rev. F. B. Meyer painted a gloomy and painful picture of the decadence of the age in his pre sidential address ar the Free Church Congress at Leicester. The greed of

traffic all came in for scathing condemnation. "The whole world seems given up to the craving for gain." said Dr. Meyer. "Soaring prices, endless strikes, the profiteer ing vampire and the newly rich all symptomatic of the of materialism. recrudescence

are

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1920

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion,

Agenta for--ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

HEALTH against SICKNESS.

By taking ere ROOSTER BRAND" MACABONT, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Boup Scuf REGULARLY you will have do complaint of any kind of sickness all our Products being manufactured from Flour of the Boat, Quality and under the most Sanitary Method can be my digested and give you GOOD HEALTH & STRENGTH. Larga quantifiathare been exported to various parts of the World. Your esteemed Orders will receive our prompt and careful attention. Terma moderate, especially for Aguaios

TRADE MARK.

THE HING WIE PASTE MPG.

CO., LTD.

HILD OFFICE: Hongkong, Nos. 47 & 18 Connaught Road Central Tel No. 1933,

BRANCH OPTICE: Shanghai. Nos 480 d:431, Nanking: Road. FACTORras Hongkong. Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay and Shanghai, No. 71, North Soochow Road,

(JUBT ARRIVEDEN

Ladies' Trimmed and Untrimmed HATS for Summer Latest Style.

TRIK?HONE 3468. --

Prices to suit all purses. POHOOMULL BROS.

36, QUEEN'S ROAD CESTRAL.

HOTELS AND CAFES,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

J. H. TAGGART.

HEXAGE

THE PEAK HOTEL,

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of—

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

tion in China is, of course, of pasgain, the craze for pleasure, the 1,500 Feet above Sea Level, amount importance whenever trade sensuousness and sporting instincts with China is considered. It is under of the modern women, and the drink In view of the theories in general stood that the British Electrical anar circulation the Far East as to the Affed Manufacturers' Association in measures Germany contemplates for Landon has asked for a special report building up her Far Eastern trade regarding trading methods in China special interest perhaps attaches to in their particular line of business: the statement recently submitted by This Association, as a rule, does not H. M. Consul-General at Tientsin recognise any journal apart from its and published in London by the own publication. The facts which Board of Trade. This relates to the any such report may comprise are organisation of ex-compradores of not likely therefore to receive general ex-enemy firms to deal directly with publicity unless the Association's Germany. It is reported that there merabers are more communicative, is plenty of capital behind this move. Nevertheless, in endeavouring to ment. Owing to difficulties of exobtain such report the Association excusness of the dance, thesistatita change it is intended to transact on the right lines, and its action is business on a barter basis and indicative of the increased inferest through the medium of a firm in being taken in China, trade. Holland. The difficulties in the way

of carrying out this idea are very considerable and do not appear to have been fully realised, though it is said that one large consignment has already gone forward.

We are staggered by crimes of violence due probably to the abnor mal excitement of the war. We are confronted with race degeneration, the immodesty of fashion, the sen

tion of spiritism for religion, and the craze for amusement. The ostentatious extravagance of the profiteer must give all thoughtful manufacturers and exporters to take continued: "The present craze for Official reports from Tientsin-urge people cause for anxiety." Dr. Meyer a more liberal view as to the require recreation leads to crowded theatres ments of their representatives so that and cinemas, and stimulates the the latter may increase their staff appetite for the startling and There is probably some connection sufficiently to develop the full potens the sensational Man is always between this development and the lialities of the business and the ear a fighting animal

Of late we facts reported from the Netherlands ployment of a travelling Inspector is have had unpleasant explosions of that the Netherlands Trading As also suggested. Similar advice has this spirit in degrading prize fights sociation (Nederlandsche Handelsbeen consistently offered the man more politely described as boxing maatschappij), with the assistance facturer, and there is sufficient contests, which are patronised by so- of one or two other Dutch banks. evidence available to-day that firms called ladies bent on emulating the have reached an agreement with a seriously tackling Far Eastern trade wives and daughters of the nobility grow, of German manufacturers for are pronting by the suggestions. It who crowded the Coliseum in the the granting of a revolving credit of may indeed be taken as a fact today darkest days of the Roman Empire" 50,000,000 florins for the sale to that efficient representation will ea The selfish spirit of modera labour Germany of raw materials, such, for perience little difficulty in obtaining and the attempt to loosen the mar instance, as cotton, copper, and support from suitable firms, and, asriage tie also came under Dr. Meyer's wool. It is understood that this a general statement, such support is ban "The majority of our people," agreement provides that half of the more substantial than that America he said, "have less religion than the manufactured articles produced from offers her technical and commercial Hindu er the Kafir." the raw materials so imported are to representatives.

be re-exported to the Netherlands, H. M. Consul General at Tientsin

and to be dispused of by the above-mentions that representatives of two-

mentioned Dutch banking syndicate combinations of British mauutac- stant supervision in the interests of for the account of the Germans, for turers recently, visited this port and the producer, It is thus a compro- the purpose of redeeming the credit while they differed in regard to their mise between the old method of on which the particular raw materials views as to the best method, they simply appointing & Shanghal firm in question were furnished. The were in agreement as to the as agent and the short-circuiting" remaining 50 per cent. of the goods necessity for decentralisation from method that is much discussed at may be disposed of freely by the Shanghai. Of these, one interested present, Le, eliminating all foreign German.manufacturers.

in steel and other metals and alloys, middlemen and dealing with the Signs are not wanting of attempts wire rope, beltings, and packing native merchant.

There is no doubt that the Chinese on the part of Germans to resuscitate has appointed different local firma their trade by various means. More as agents for each of these commodi are taking an increasing interest in than one British firm has received ties, and while he himself proposes direct business with foreign coun proposals from pre-war correspon- to spend six months of each year tries, and that the days are aver dents in Germany to resume basi in the Far East, two of which when a foreign merchant could re- ness relations on the same footing will be in China, te has a permanent alise a large profit on every deal with- as before; and an application was representative in Shanghal to make out effort, and quickly amass a large. even received by His Majesty's arrangements for supplying the re fortune out of all proportion to his Consul General from a German pri- quirements of outport agents, and contribution towards the develop soner-of-war in Japan for a recom. also to pay periodical visit of inspecment of trade. The number of mendation to a British firm in Tien-tion For the present this would Chinese who have received a foreign tsin who might requite his services appear to be the best possible system. education, either in China or abroad, as an expert in local produce. An It ullises the existing facilities for

It must be said, however, that other form assumed by the same trade possessed by firms long ee movement is the opening of a branch tablished in a farticular locality, and while the tendency towards direct of an American firm with a Teutonic all their knowledge of local con trading is increasing, and mittat be name and a local representative of ditions and goodwill, and at the same patched and taken into considera “dönstru"nationality. The firm har sine eliminates Ghoutaiddlema and tion, the time is not yet ripe for it -Eastern recently made an application for distributes the goods more directly as general principle.

Enginering, appointment as the local sub-agent to the ultimate consumer, under con

already considerable.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

A LL ELECTRIO TRAMS Faus Entrance, Electio Lifts, Fans and Lighting

A European Eatha and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Bort of Food and Service.

Telephone 373. Telegraphio Addésan :----" VICTORIA.

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two'olautes from 'Star Ferry).

Becently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management Cutine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms. Terme moderate. Special Loan to familes on application to

J. EL OXHERRY, Propris bor

Telephone K. 3. Telographie Add: "PALACE”

CARLTON

HOTEL

(NEM CONEN 'AMERICAN HOTEL ÉN 'WER-OGLOWT.)

ICE HOUSE STREET

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Froeliani Calzines arupulously dlesni. Moderate Terms Monthly and Fandly Bates on application to the-Propelatras. Launches meet Passenger Bostaj

Telegraphic Address “ UKBETON,” “

Ms. F. E CAMERON

BLUE BIRD

TOH ORMAM PAKLOUB

AND CONFECTIONERS

Tel. No. 3028

Dandias LORE

Boda

-CHO0OLATES Plaka Huset Vanilla Chomlaser Home-Madal Assorted. zl/wolkins Mashayi Hadiah's Sand Borden

Chocolate California," Star* ChocolateY

25 per po Amenas adotadan, (L-40 War î

COCOA Imperial Coon indő sta per d FUL.....

13 Queen's Ed. C.

BOSTON CANDY STORE

OPPOSITE THE ROYAL THEATRE.

CALL BETWEEN ACTS.

TELEPHONE ORDERS FILLED.

Cigars and Cigarettes

TANG YUK, DIKTET,

the Inho H1847-TING, 14, D'AGUIDAR UZAKTE

TERMA VERY MODERATI Somalistion fros.

FRENCH LESSONS

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