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MMERT BROS.

(PTIONEERS, APPRAISERS ·

AND SURVEYORS,

ublic Auctions-

Undersigned have received in- actions to sell by Public Auction

ON

RED LY, July 9, 1820,

Dommencing at 11 n.m. Messrs. Yue Far's Godewn,

Kennedy Town,

of account of the concerned)

Baga Tonkin Rice,

(Stored in above Gedora)

Bagy Tonkin Rice,

Stored in So. 19 Golown, Harg kong & Kowloon Wharf & Go- down Co., Ltd.. Kennedy Town! as :-Cash on delivery.

BAMMERT BROS, "Auctioneers.

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URDAY, July 10, 1920, Commencing at ilam. eir Sales Room, Duildell Street, for, Account of the Concerned)

tons No.1 Saison Long White broken grains 15 per cent to 20

1.

toms No. 1 Salga Leng White broken graina 13 per cent to 20

at

tens No. 1 Saigon Long White

broken grains 15 per cent to

m1:—Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

са

Auctioneers.

TURDAY, July 10, 1920 mencing at 19 o'clock (noon).

Messrs. Wah Ke's Godown,

Kennedy Town,

or Account of the Concerned.)

Bags Tonkin Rice,

(Stored in abore Godeira).

Bags Toakin Rice.

Stored in S. 10 Godown, Hong kong & Kowloon Wharf & Go-

f. down Co, Ltd, West Point).

Bags Tonkia Rice,

(Stored in Messrs. Yue. Fat's Godown, Keznedy Town). -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

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MONDAY, July 12, 1820,

commencing at 11 a.m...

Jos. 2 and 3 gedons, Holt's Wharf,

Kowloon.

for Account of the Concerned),

1 000 Boxes Tin Plates. (allure or less damaged). arma --Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. /uzionera magkong, July 6, 1922

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MONDAY, July 12, 1920,

commencing at 3 p.m. Hesars, Cooper & Co's. gudowa,

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WR DOGEST OF THE CONTEXED), 200 Bales Gunnies 28' x 40' Ter-Cash on delivery,

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Congkong, July 7, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

OODWILL OF THE PRACTICE OF AN ARCHITECT

hitbertà carried on by the late REDERICK ENDELL ROSSER Noe 38 & 40 Queen's Road, Central,

Victoria

in the Colony of Hongkong

to be sold in tere lots by

PUBLIC AUCTION

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12th day of July, 1930, at noon

by

Messes. LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers,

Hos 33 & 40, Queen's Road, Central, Cone constists of:-

All the right file and interest in the odwill of the late Frederick Endell'

r, deceased. Iste of Kos. 39 and 40, een's Road, Central, Victoria Archi

two consists of:-

All the office furniture etc., on the

premises aforesaid,

farther particulars and conditions

apply to

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or.....

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24. HISTORY OF SILK.

LECTURE BEFORE CHINA

SOCIETY.

A Tokyo message states that there Mr. Asquith was the principal

At the last meeting of the China speaker at a meeting in the Central is a romantic tale going the rounds Hall, Westminster, promoted by the of Kakigara-chio and Kabuto-cho Society, held, at the School of Orient- "Fight the Famine Council, with these days of a mart who came to al Studies, reports the L&C. Express the object of urging a revision of the Tokyo with practically nothing, play Mr. G. S. Boulger delivered an in- The History of Peace Treaties with a view to theed the rice market, won millions and teresting lecture on economic restoration of Europe. then lost it all. The rocket-like Silk After å brief introduction by Lord Parmoor, who presided, said career of this one time child of fortune Mr. G. Willoughby Meade, MA, who it was time that the Supreme Council has covered less than three months, presided, the lecturer said→ was dissolved and that its peripatetic It was in March that he first invaded The history of silk begins and will activities came to an end. Poland the arena where the balls and bears end in China. Both the mulberry was a test issne, and those who play with other people's money; it and the Bombyx are probably natives believe in the future of a League of was last week that he was definitely of China, and the domestication of the silkworm is due to the fact that. cleared out. Nations should support, with import-

the moth is unable to fly. The first unate determination, the plea put forward by Lord Robert Cecil

instance of mulberry culture occurs in BC. 2300. The secret was weil kept, and it was not until B.C. 140, or later, that a Chinese princess smuggled seed and eggs in her head-dress on her way to Khotan. In course of time the silkworm went thence to Kashmir and India the most ancient Sanskrit literature the names of textiles are hopes lessly confused, but the Mahabharatta, B.C. 1400, seems to speak clearly of thread spun by worms" as brought BULLED THE RICE MARKET. It was in the latter half of March in tribute, probably from Kashmir. that he made his appearance in the Further West, silk as a material unknown to Homer or rice section of the Tokyo Rice and was Produce Exchange. He started as a Herodotus, and not perhaps until the bull; he bought rice. The succeed conquests of Alexander. Aristotle ing fluctuation of the rice market gives from hearsay an account of the was upward. He waited till the peak great worm: Bombyx, with horns was reached and then sold. He now which change into a caterpillar, then hal enough capital to begin opera- into a moth, and lastly into a chry- tions on a larger scale. He bought salis, all within six months, and the women unroll the again and with judgment that then

His name is Kakubara, and up to March, when he came up to Tokyo Mr. Asquith said the first pupese something like Y1,000 in his pocket was to impress, if we could, on the he was leading the prosaic life of a mind and imagination of our countrysroall shopkeeper at Shiroka. Times the tragic state of things which, as a were good, the farmers in his district result of war and of the peace, now were making money and spending it. confronted us almost all over Europe, His little shop prospered and Kaku and rare particularly in its eastern bara salted away something over a quarters. The second purpose was thousand yen. He had heard stories to point out with emphasis that the of the vast fortunes being made over only practical remedy for this truly night in Tokyo. He decided to test

his lack tragic situation was to be found in a change.

In

"I don't rayself care." said Meet Asquith, "whether you describe it by the name ni revision or, if it offends susceptibilities less, by the name of practical modification of the terms of the treaties, and in bringing into effective operation "both the authority and the powers of the League of Nations."

There were two elementary con- ditions which, in his judgment, nught to have been and had not been ob was uncanny, or with the luck cocoons to weave them. After tracing served. The first was to maintain that a beginner is supposed to have the gradual penetration into Europe and develop preexisting economic in all games of chance, he of the silkworm, from Venice to unity. The second was to previde, was right again. The beginning of Genoa, thence to France and Spain, from the first, effective security for the April trading on the Exchange and finally to England, the lecturer disarmament and against any form foued Kakahara a millionaire, and showed the development in England of military adventure. Both these ambitious to get into the multi and how the East India Company

spent large sums during the last! conditions had been bliędly and millionaire class. cisastrously ignored.|| "

About this time he formed a com- quarter of the 18th century in estab bination with one of the most noted, lishing Italian methods of winding in of notorious, gamblers in Japan, one Bengal, go as to destroy the English Hanzaimon Oka, popularly known import trade from Aleppo, Naples, ! as Okahan, a man who has lived for Calabria, Valencia, until all the silk years by manipulating the various woven in England came from North- markers. This Okahan was one of em Italy, Bengal and China.

Mr. Boulger then described the the speculators who called down the Popular wrath at the time of the 1918 coming of disease to the worms. ice riets by their alleged profiteering. The French silkworm rearers, under His big home at Tsu was made the the booming prosperity between 1825 object of an attack by an indignant and 1850, built large rearing houses, mob With this man Kakubara brought millions of worms together formed an alliance and together they in one room, and even hastened their set about to effect a corner of the development with oil-stove heat. An rice market.

unfavourable season produced a

OUR CONFIDING GOVERNMENT." "I go next," said Mr. Asquith, "to what is equally itportant and perhaps, even more urger-that they shall not waste their scanty-resources an development of armaments and upon military adventures. (Applause.) That which is going on at this mo. ment in Southwest Russia-not only ia Poland, but beyond the borders of Poland is a scandal and a reproach upon the statesmanship of Europe. Much sympathy is felt that Poland bas suffered grievously from the

war."

were

It was a poor country, continued the speaker, but it had an army of something like 500,000 men, who now engaged far beyond Poland's assigned boundaries. What was Poland doing there (hear, hear) and how had she got there, and how had this country of depre ciated currency been able to produce for ber uses the munitions with which this array was equipped? It bad taken a long time to find out.. Some of his friends in the House of Commons had been very persistent and pertinacious in their inquiries, but they had been put off with ambiguities and equivocations hap piy rare in bis Parliamentary experience (Applause.)

became sellers.

THE BEARS RUN FOR JOYER They were partially successful, for when the time came for the settle- ment at the end of April, the bears were caught short and rat for cover. They had to pay penalties to the Kakuhara-Okahan combination. Ka kabara's pile passed the two million mark. His ambition grew.

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But his judgment, or lack-de scarcity of mulberry leaves in 1844, serted him. He still believed in the and the disease to which-15 years game of the bulls, in buying rice, al- later Pasteur gave the name of though there were many signs that Pebrise (from Petre, the Provencal of pepper) WAS first pointed to a drop. Farmers in the name

Toticed in the Cevennes. As! country, hard pressed for money began to ship rice to Tokyo on con- the fatally destructive epidemic could get for it. Operators who had taminated eggs were sought in Italy, signment, willing to take what they spread, fresh supplies of uncon- been holding rice in the big godown Spain, Portugal, China, and Japan, Fukagawa, alarmed by this turn but the pebrine seemed to travel in advance of the egg buyers, and only from Japan were disease-free eggs continously procured. The following years witnessed a decline in the suk trace of France. Meanwhile, the revolution in Japan bad brought that country into the markets of the world, and the productions of the cheap female and child labour of that "But the truth," Mr. Asquith

country and of China had gained a footing in

from went on, has begun to leak out.

Europe, azd We were told that as far back.

BEARS CLEAN” KAKUHARA. that time onward, whatever the of the.. Test of as last October our Government

With the stage thus set, the bears vicissitudes

trade made a free gift to the Poles of a tired of being the victims of this inter- the silk

of the world, considerable quantity of so-called loper in their game of chance, set Japan's production bas steadily and surplus stores which the Poies seemed about to get him. They formed a rapidly increased both in quality and to have represented themselves to selling combination, under the leader quantity. The opening of the Suez require for the purpose of repelling ship of a man named Nagashima who, Canal in 1869, bringing the silk of the some anticipated aggression on the just back from New York, was Far East direct to Marseilles, caused part of the Bolshevik Government believed to have learned something Lyons and Milan, led to the superces- of Russia. Our confiding Govern from the bulls and bears of Wall: sion of London as the main distribut ment (laughter)-made, as we are Street. Everything favoured them and ing centre of the raw silk trade of told, a free gift of these stores with when the slump in rice came on the the world. At a first glance the pre- out imposing any condition of any Exchange on May 22, they caught sent position of the silk trade looks kind as to the manner in which or Kakuhara and "earned." him. Ee was as if Japan bids fair to monopolise the the purpose for which they were to caught holding 330,000 koku of rice production of raw silk, and the Waited be used. But we now discover that on margin. He was able to meet the States to capture the entire weaving there were ships loading here in the first demand for a payment of addi- industry. Silk is, however, throughout London docks-

tional margin of Y200 per 100 koku, and especially in the production of A Voice: You never raised your but the second demand found him raw silk-largely dependent upon voice against it

į"broke." His bargains are to be sold labour, specially skilled, though no- Mr. Asquith: Raise my voice at auction.

where highly paid labour. The against it! I never heard of it,

Back in the little shop in Shizuoka United States is mainly dependent nor did any of us. (Cheers)

Kakubara can now astonish rilagers upon Japan for its raw material, and Mr. Asquith proceeded that these with a tale that can rival the best Ends, at the moment at least, that ships were carrying for what was romances of Wall Street, Lombard. "the women who went to munition vaguely described by one Minister as Street or the Chicago' Charge. He work during the war are remaining! a military mission, which we now was a millionaire for almost two in the hardware manufactures in know to be a euphemistic synonym months, anyway..

for the Polish Government, actually

loading these arms on board British

which their neat-handedness has proved most efficient. Japan is be ginning to compete with America in

ships to be used, not for the protection member of the League, forthwith silk weaving, and; will soon be as of Poland against the Soviets, but for summon a meeting of the Council. I unable to part with her raw silk as this 'aggressive and unwarrantable When this Polish adventure the States are now unable to invasion of Russian territory. What began, and it has been going on now, supply us with all the cotton we makes the matter so much the worse I think, some two or three if not four require. Labour, too; is rising in is that the ink is hardly dry on the months, did any member of the cost in Japan, and both Japan and Covenant which constitutes the League, did Great Britain, did France, America are beginning to look to an League of Nations," a Covenant to put into operation that article which improved and increased supply of which not only Great Britain and contemplated precisely such a con- raw material from China as their France "but possibly Poland herself tingency as this, and which future hope. As the home of the are signatories. Let me read very we were credulous enough to "cheapest skilled labour, the last land shortly the eleventh article of the believe would in the future perhaps in which labour will rise in Covenant..

prevent the possibility of irrespon price, it looks as if the last country Any war or threat of war, whether sible military adventures on the part in which sil's will be produceable at a immediately affecting any members of any State; great or small? : Can profit will be that in which its pro- of the League or not, is hereby any course be conceived better calcu! duction began. declared a master of concern to the fated than that which has been pu In reply to a vote of thanks pro holé League, and the League shall sued by the Supreme Council of the posed by Mr. Diosy, the lecturer said take any action that may be deemed (Great Powers in this matter to dis- that although no figures were avail- wise and effectual to safeguard the credit the sincerity of the Covenant able at present, it was estimated that peace of, nations. Lo case any and undermine the authority of the only one tenth of China's silk produc

tion was exported, and that the un- such emergency should arise the League? secretary shall, on the request of any The first necessity was to get ridi iversal, or partial adoption by the of the Supreme Council and substitute Chinese of European clothing would for it the League of Nations; re be a serious blow to the silk inforced' by the admission of neutral manufacturers, Azother, point was BLAZON TYPE NOT NECESSARY Powers and cum late encules, and by that if the Chinese adopted a impre HAMBERLAIB Colid and DiserbRussia. (Cheers.) Then at last cleanly manner of rearing silkworms

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