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MONDAY, JULY 6, 1920.

INTIMATIONS.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HONGKONG.

EUROPEAN WANTED $3

Hughes & Hough A BERGER for particulars apply

ADOJONKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

General Auctioneers

Share," Coal

and General Produce Brukers and Commission Agents.

PROPRIITORS *ToKwx=Wan", Goal Storage,

Ondet und "Bentley's

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Telegraphic Addres

HEMATON” HONG KONG

PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

PHX Undersigned bars réceived instrno-

Tons to sell by Public Action,

{P02_2000UNT OF THE CONCERNED),

OD

TUESDAY,

July 6, 1920, commencing a: 230 pm, at their Sales Rooma, No. 8 Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

A Small Consigament of WHITE GOODS, &c., '&c, Comprising:-

to the ChiLATS,

NOTICE.

HE interest of MR. EDWARD THE

MAURICE RAYMOND 85 2 Partner in our Firm ceased by efflarion of time on the 30th June, 1920,

I

BENJAMIN & POTTS,

11, Queen's Road Central,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, July 2, 1920.

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NOTICE.

have THIS DAY established myself as a Share and General: Broker at Na 10 Ice House Street.

... EDWARD M. RAYMOND, Hongkang, July 2, 1920.

NOTICE.

WE have admitted MR. WILLIAM

EDWARD LEONARD SHENTON, a partner in our Finn as from TO-DAY.

DEACON, LOOKER.

DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, July 1, 1920.

NOTICE.

Pillow Cases, White Satin Quilts, Turkish Towels, Bath Towels, Bath Sheets, Double Bed Sheets, Battenberg and Drawnwork Bedspreads, Table FE interest and responsibility of

THE Covers, Crochet and Drawnwork MR. HERBERT WILLIAM Doilies, Table Cloths, Linen Damask LOOKER, in our Firm ceased on the Serviettes,

30th June 1920. Also

DEACON, LOOKER,

DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, July 1, 1920.

A few lots of Bellow Valises, Kit -Bags, Suit Cases, and Attache Cases. And

Two Pairs Prismatic Binoculars. (All new goods and in small lots.) TUM:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers

Kongkong, July 2, 1820.

(POR LCCOUNT OF TER CONCIESED),

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00

TUESDAY,

July 6, 1920, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Bales Booms, No. 8, Des Vaux Boad, Corner of

Ice House Street, TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNI TORE, BRASS AND BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEADS, TEAKWOOD TWEN BEDSTEADS, CARPETS, &C., &c. comprising:-

Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs (uzw),

NOTICE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

85 WOEDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID, Each additional-word & Cents for $ Insertions.

WANTED.

WANTED: EUROPEAN ASSIS TANT MANAGER. for Export established Department with old British firm. Experience in South Chins Exports essential. One with knowledge of French given preference. Good salary to right man. Give refer- ences and wages required Bax No. 1211, c/o "Cuxa Man.”

TO LET.

TO LET-A SHOP in Nathan

Болеть

ADY WISHES TO SELL entire contents of well furnished 5 Room Blackwood Furniture, and Cut Glass, ed house, including Victrola, Silver, (all nearly new) Apply Bar 1914; c/o |

CHINA Man" NO DEALERS,

TO LET.

TO LET-For immediate occupation 13 ROOMS, anitable for OFFICES. in Queen's Road Central, near the banks Apply Box No. 1213, e/o THE Road,"Canta Mai

Apply to Humphreys Estate & Finance Co, Ltd, Aiamudra Buildings.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

GLENSHIEL No 141 The

near Barker Road Tram Station. Apply to Linstead and Davis, Alexandra Buildings

NEWS FROM HOME.

FLAMING WHITSUNTIDE.

(From Our Open Correspondent.)

LOST.

LOST. At the Posk, a small Blick & White JAPANESE POODLE.

Answers to the name of "TODDIES." Finder will be Rewarded. Apply to No. 4, Mountain View, The Peak.

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against speculation especially in pro- duce or in shares.

RCO-LITE

95% Air 5% Gasoline or Kerosene

Sole Agents: TANG LLUY & CO.,

Paper Machants.. SPOT STOCKS SLWAYS OF HAND, 68 Couranght Road Central Telephone No. 1570.

The Stock Exchange is having domestic troubles; also some members having undertaken too much, with the result that they have only retained their footing with the aid of friends. There have also been disciplinary mes-authorities to action. The new Chief LONDON, May, 24. After a wet and "Chilly April, May which have been dealing in stocks

sures in the case of one or two firms Commissioner in London, General has treated us to her sweetest smailes.recently in enemy hands. One such Criminal Investigating Dept. by 100

Horwood, is Whitsuntide has been a time of unfirm has been suspended for two years detectives.

strengthening the broken sunshine, and people have

These are being drawn flocked to seaside and country has

QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

from the uniformed police, for the Commissioner has no use for the amateurs who imagine themselves Sherlock Holmes.

in their thousands, despite the fast Ever popular Queen Alexandra has ther there are no excursion rates and been suffering from a bronchial chill. the full fifty per cent. bercase over As nothing emerges according to the pre-war charges is being extracted old Victorian regime about royalties He has a fine force to select from, for Rates lor accommodation at the sea-being ill until the matter is grave, the 4.000 men of the best type have join- side are also up, as is natural, con- public immediately became excited,ed the force since the Armistice. To sidering the dearer cost of everything. believing her to be in a serious state: cope with the development of the use But the ramp in houses and fats is Happily this is not so. She is now of the motor in stealing, Scotland Yard checked. Scores of people have able to go about the garden, in fair is also strengthening its supply of speculated in flats, furnished them spirits, though very deat.

motor cars. We should have some

!!

A SAVING PHASE.

WE E are vacating our present and set up a scale of charges that they Partly no doubt because she was lively chases shortly.

premises on July 31st, and re-confidently expected travelling Ameri- the beautiful consort of the idolised i moving temporarily to No. 19, ICE cans and overseas visitors would pay King Edward, partly for her own sake, HOTSE STREET (next se Mee Cheong in the fush of renewed ouring. com- and partly because of her intense dis- photographer. In order to avoid, as bined with a lack of accommodation. like of the Kaiser. Queen Alexandra ressing an orgie of spending. Wh Up to recently we have been wit- much as possible, the repacking, far removal of the stocks at present display. They have been bitterly disappointed, holds the popular fancy as no one far more currency in circulation, ed, we are offering for a few weeks only for there is a slump in the demand. else does, with the exception of the people seemed to be tent on buying Smoking Requisites, Cigars and "Egrp Many people are leaving London for Prince of Wales. That's what we luxuries. Dearer moncy and in- tian Cigarettes, Virginia Cigarettes and Tobacco at reductions of 15 per cent, 10 per cent; and 5 per cent. respectively.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

10, Des Vaux Road, Central,

Telephone 3359. Hongkong, July 1, 1920.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

rent robbers.

SHORTER SEASON.

the country and are trying to let their want" shouted a workman in Pic- creased taxation, with predictions of town places, thus adding to the supply.cadilly as she passed not long ago higher prices next winter. have The visitors are showing a preference A. Queen that is a queen and looks had a certain effect. Many people are for places.like Richmond a little way like a queen.”

staying at home for Whitsuntide, and out of town, giving facilities for a hale

the shops report a slackened demand motoring, and are refusing to take The motor car has made a great my favourite Turkish bath the other for fine. goods. Even, the rubber at London quarters at exorbitant prices. difference to London. Everybody, of Hence these tears in the haunts of the importance used to stay in town from evening assured me his clients are the first week in May und) the last as on more recognised luxuries. He economising on their baths, as well Now comes Dr. Addison with a Bill week in July. Now the majority added "And if this here taxation goes that puts the lid on the vampires motor out of town from Friday after on we may as well close." who have been coining money from noon until Monday noon.

Country

It is so necessary the nation to back those who gave up their homes to numerable.

For one thing, match- if a period of stringency will bring us fight for England. Officers and men making mammas find the country back to sanity it will certainly be use- who came back to re-establish their house party more successful than the ful. As the little boy said when warn- own reception. But these week-ends ed that a third helping of Christmas are strenuous affairs. They are not pudding would make him sick, "I for the seeker after rest and quiet.

think it's worf it."

Folding card and Occasional Tables, One W TELEPHONE and clients can the necessity of among others and riverside house parties are in- te more work and less spending tist

Upholstered Suite, Bedroom Faraitare, comprising Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tabies, and, Chairs, Washstands,

(tumed Teak wood), Bido boards, Dinner Waggans, Extension Dia- ing Tables And Chairs, &c," Dinner Services; Crockery, and Glass - Waze, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, &c., Bath

Ware,

Boom Utensils, Electro-Plated

Electric Beading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, & quantity of.

Chatra, Cabinets, Pictures Carpets new and second-hand. ·

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4280

One Good Piano, 1 Enamelled Bath, American Ice Chest, and 1 large Ricsha. (Fall Farticulars from Catalogue). Tarma Cach

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, July 2, LB20.

E have installed an additional

now ring up No. 482 or 3552.

KONGMOON DISTRICT.

(WANGMOON), ALTERATION IN CHARACTER OF WANGMOON ENTRANCE LIGHT.

TROUBLE ZONES.

shevist lending in Persia and the young men value the open air, is the

THE DRAW" OF SPORT. With a revolution in Mexico, a Bol- One result of the war, which made devil-knows-what going on in Ireland," increased drawing power of sport of all the Cabinet has enough subjects on kinds. Never have we had a more

NOTICE TO MARINERS. homes in the new order of things," found the profiteers of property in possession, demanding not only double rents but heavy premiums, often run- privilege of becoming a tenant and ning into four figures sterling, for the

entering a new home.

This new Bill makes all that illegal, Blackwood Tarniture, Side Tabing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN makes the premium receiver liable to hand to distract its attention from the successful football season, and now that on or about the 8th Jaly a fine of £100, and even enables the cool plash of the waters and the green cricket and tennis votaries are in- 1920, the Wangmoon Entrance Light tenant who has been so mulcted to refreshment of the links. will be changed to a white acetylene recover the premium paid since last

"numerable, while, in spite of far light, occafting every 3 seconds thus:- March.

The new Irish policy seems to be higher prices, the river seems more That is where I among coercion through kindness, with an in- popular than ever. Light

0.3 Boconá others, have the last laugh, and there: vestment of the island by the neces Eclipse

2.7 seconds

fore the longest, for the Hebrew who sary number of troops. Blockhouses round London are overcrowded for the All the golf links for fifty miles The alteration will increase the Got me evicted from my last fiat by are being built up and down the coun- week ends. And into those few coun candle power of the light, making it paying the landlord fifty per cent. more try, costing a main of money, and try villages where mine boast of good visible in clear weather for a distance of rent and £300 premium, paid it just goodness know's whether the campaign repute still exists and the luncheons 12 nautical miles.

before the date mentioned in the new will be successful. For all his ex- on Sundays are worth the efort, tramp Other characteristica of the Light Bill, and consequently he can't re- citability, the Irishman is a crafty and hundreds of lusty fellows and their will remain unchanged.

cover it. Moreover, the new Billa patient man almost Oriental in teir companions, "keeping fit" by makes 25 per cent. increase in the these qualities. The occupation by regular walks of twenty miles or 50 rent the maximian diloyed, so my the troops cannot be permanent. The by waysides and field paths: Another Hebrew friend is 25 per cent to the Irishman is likely to do lile while it great development, for the benefit of bad on dat also. Yesterday I had continues. But he will brood on fan- those not so young or vigorous, is the two landlords begging me to look at cied grievances and injustices and organisation of tours by motor chars-a- flats a prompt change from the atti-break out worse than ever later on. banc. tude before the new Bill was an- Sir Nevil Macready, who is in com ning into every part of the land, from These now seem to be run- nounced. A month ago panic-stricken mand, after a spell as chief commis- Berwick to the Isle of Wight. home-seekers were paying agents sioner of the London police, talks with Cricket has proved as enormous heavy fees, in addition to the demands apparent frankress abour Ireland, but "draw" during the bot Whitsundide. of the landlorde, to find them places, really says nothing he does not want Lords, stands were packed, and some and the agents were barely civil, in to be spread broadcast. For a soldier: fine cricket was witnessed, the first the necessity of their clients. Now he is a fine diplomatist. But he is three players on the Middlesex side they are all politeness. And a ines likely to need both qualities where he scoring "beyond the century mark back from the war can recover, his is now. house il he needs it for his own use.

FORCING OUT THE STOCKS.

Decorated with the sign of the From the famine-stricken areas of Blue Bird," a special service of When the Bank rate was raised a Austria and other parts of Central London motor omnibases is now at the month ago there was a great outcry, Europe, the Society of Friends are call of the public for journeys thirty for the conditions did not seem to now bringing over batches of 500 miles or so out of town and the innova warrant an extension of dear money cidren, who are being accommodated tion or rather extensions already But it now appears that one of the different parts of the country, to a great success. aims was to force merchants to sell

NEW YORK'S - LEADING HOTELS

MURRAY HIL

JOAN HSE BOWMAN PRESIDENT

This group repre-

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first-class hotel,

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centrally located

BILTMORE

BELMONT

ANSONIA

ENEMY CHILDREN.

stocks that were being held for higher be fed and taught and then sent back prices. The result is that merchants more fitted to sustain then.

when conditions in their own land are have found the charges for continuing

There are those, of course, who

spiece,

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PERSIA

There are two parties in evidence in regard to Persia One, with cor Joans too high and big supplies of pro-criticise such a move, but on the broad mercial interests in the Caucasus and duce are coming on the market. The

eastward, wants us to send a large speculative things are chiefly affected. principle of calling for the young force there and stem the advance of Tea of the cheaper kind; tin, canned as well as the far-sighted view that Bolshevism, on the ground that the

these children will take back senti-

goods, "wool, and several other lines are all cheaper on this account. I meats friendly to this land, to the the road to India and necessitate the agitators will gradually make unsafe: ultimate benefit of international rela

doubt whether it will help the consons, the policy of generosity seems Spending of millions where thousands sumer much. Rew materials, for

would now suffice the other, sick t example, have still to be worked up into to be justified. On linding they are expedians and all for econotty, de sed to a receiving camp in Kent, manufactured arctes, and labour, and where they are kept under observation made that we stick to our agree other conditions are such that I do not for diseases for free Weeks and then 10 and Persia with instructors, but see much cheapness in the end. But dispersed to other parts of the country frankly alarmed, and anxious for Bris

there is bound to be some disasters for Smell men who have overladen their

nothing more. Persiar circles are

THE CRIME WAVE ZATI Dah --help. But the great scar has

accounts.". The big-sound÷Bros can W-The wave of crim no more than made all but the feriest fire eaters still get all the credit they want. The was to be expected, of course, after a cager for a stoppage of the squander- banks are setting their faces "ard great war has moved the London- ing of blood and treesUIT."--

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ALL KINDS OF REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN.

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ALWAYS IN STOCK

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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 roomas, Elevators, Electric Lights and Fans installed. Hot and cold water service fitted, Excellent Cuisine, Bar and Billiard room, Boot Garden, Cinematograph Theatre and every modern convenience provided.

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These Oigarettes are made of selected Mild leaf tobacco and quite harmless to those who are accustomed to inhale,

NANYANG BROTHERS TOBACCO CO.

165, Des Voeux Road,

Globe

Hongkong.

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